You have two choices.  Disable UAC or stop using an account that is a
member of the Administrators Group for day to day operations.  I would
choose the latter.

Jeffrey Altman


On 4/5/2011 4:51 PM, Jonathan Nilsson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, joined to an Active Directory 
> domain
> which is my Kerberos REALM for my OpenAFS cell. Everything works fine, but I
> have recently noticed that when I login with a domain account, Network 
> Identity
> Manager does not seem to be automatically getting an AFS token. It just 
> pops-up
> a password prompt for my Kerberos "identity" as it calls it.
> 
> I did some searching and found this page in the NIM docs which seems to 
> describe
> my situation:
> 
> http://www.secure-endpoints.com/netidmgr/v2/docs/netidmgr/html/config_k5.htm
> 
> which about half way down the page has this paragraph:
> 
> "On Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 the operating system 
> does
> not permit the importation of the Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket if the 
> active
> user account is a member of the Administrators or Domain Administrators groups
> and User Account Control (UAC) mode is active."
> 
> My domain account is a member of the local computer's Administrators group. Is
> there any workaround besides completely disabling UAC?
> 
> In the mean time I removed my account from the local "Administrators" group, 
> and
> NIM works again.
> 

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