I would think that the shortcuts in Control Panel\Administrative Tools would have generic shortcut paths, ie %WINDIR% or %WINDOWS%. And if it is the environment variable, why does it work fine when I am unplugged from the LAN?
Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. ________________________________ From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Administrator Rights It's the starting path. The shortcuts use environment variables (%HOMEDIR% IIRC) which don't seem to get picked up by Run As. I always use an elevated CMD shell and just launch things from there. (It helps that I've memorized the major MSC names). On 5/29/08 6:57 AM, "Krishna Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Slightly OT, I have XP SP2 machines when I try to open Computer Management, Services, etc using Run As, it will thow an invalid directory error (like when you try to use Run As on an exe that is on a mapped drive). This only happens when the system is connected to the LAN. If it is not plugged in, the Run As works normally. I have to go into the Windows\system32 directory and use Run As there for it to work. Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. ________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Administrator Rights I generally use a normal user account for accessing my PC, and an account with an admin prefix for administrative tasks. Since RunAs was introduced in Windows 2000 this became a hell of a lot easier :-). Also our server support guys generally have Power User access for logging on to servers for everyday tasks, and are temporarily elevated by a backbone security team when they need local admin or higher. This may be overkill for a lot of enterprises though. 2008/5/29 Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Just curious what your best practices are in the rights you give your system administrators and other IT staff. Do they have domain admin rights on their daily user accounts? Do you use separate accounts with higher rights for auditing? The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. ----- Salvador Manzo [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter University of Southern California 818-612-5112 The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones. -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 73 on the veto power ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
