You might find this useful: "Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user's profile and ownership of created objects."
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sudowin/ Rich On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bill Harris < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is the intended process. To bypass issues with the Virtual Store > > in Vista, Pacman checks to see if it write access to > > <JinstallDir>\bin. If not it won't run Package Manager. See the thread > > <http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/beta/2008-February/003069.html> > > Ric, > > Thanks. It didn't solve my problem, but I understand a bit better. > > > I agree that would be nicer. I don't think it would be possible to use > > Package Manager online, but it might be possible to open Package > > Manager using the local catalog offline. That would let you check > > which addons you have installed and what versions as well as access > > the Info button etc. > > Anything like that to see what I had, what versions I had, and what Info > had to say about them would be nice. It'd be even nicer if it would > also at least tell me which packages were out of date so I could decide > if it's worth becoming administrator (oh, for su or sudo). > > > I think you are using XP. In which case you should be able to run an > > Explorer session or Command prompt as another (Admin) user and make > > your changes. Start|All Programs|Accessories| Right click Windows > > Explorer| Run as... > > Good assumption. > > I had high hopes you had the secret, but I've tried that. On my XP > system, right-clicking things in the Start menu (including exactly what > you suggested above) does not bring up any menu at all, let alone one > with a Run as... option. > > Is it supposed to work as you describe in XP? If I had that ability, it > would help. Right now, I have to open Windows Explorer, navigate to > j.exe or whatever program I want to run, and then Run as .... That's > slow, and it's even slower with things such as Windows Explorer because > I suspect that's not in Program Files but somewhere in Windows that I'd > have to go find. > > Thanks, > > Bill > -- > Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ > Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA > http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
