What you are trying to achieve cannot be done very easily and is not supported. However, it is possible using a modicum of hacking. Aaron Margosis wrote an article describing one technique. To quote the pertinent section, you will need to carry out these steps: Enable the SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege in your current token Get an HWND …
This will return a bool valid using System.Security.Principal; bool isElevated; using (WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()) { WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity); isElevated = principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); }
See here: https://superuser.com/questions/42537/is-there-any-sudo-command-for-windows According to that the command looks like this for admin: runas /noprofile /user:Administrator cmd
In general, a non-administrator user has this access to the registry: Read/Write to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Read Only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (which is just a link to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes) It is possible to change some of these permissions on a key-by-key basis, but it’s extremely rare. You should not have to worry about that. For your purposes, your application …
When you log on Windows creates an access token. This identifies you, the groups you are a member of and your privileges. And note that whether a user is an administrator or not is determined by whether the user is a member of the Administrators group. Without UAC, when you run a program it gets …
You can add a PrincipalPermission attribute to your method to demand administrative privileges for its execution: [PrincipalPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, Role = @”BUILTIN\Administrators”)] public void MyMethod() { } This is described in more detail in the following article: Security Principles and Local Admin Rights in C# .Net If you are looking for a way to elevate an already …
Below I have put together everything I learned about Starting/Stopping a Windows Service from a non-Admin user account, if anyone needs to know. Primarily, there are two ways in which to Start / Stop a Windows Service. 1. Directly accessing the service through logon Windows user account. 2. Accessing the service through IIS using Network …
As noted by Mattias Nordqvist in the comments below, you can also select the radio button option “Run whether user is logged on or not”. When saving the task, you will be prompted once for the user password. bambams noted that this wouldn’t grant System permissions to the process, and also seems to hide the …
If the current console is not elevated and the operation you’re trying to do requires elevated privileges then you can start powershell with the Run as Administrator option : PS> Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs Microsoft Docs: Start-Process
You’ll want to modify the manifest that gets embedded in the program. This works on Visual Studio 2008 and higher: Project + Add New Item, select “Application Manifest File”. Change the <requestedExecutionLevel> element to: <requestedExecutionLevel level=”requireAdministrator” uiAccess=”false” /> The user gets the UAC prompt when they start the program. Use wisely; their patience can wear out quickly.