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Can I create an admin privilege for just one application?
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Mar 15, 202633901 viewsConfidence Score0%
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A university tries to run our software, but their users don't have admin rights. However our software requires admin rights to run. Is there a way to have their system admin create a privilege, just for our software or would this cause a (major) security loophole for their system? Any other (reason…
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Yes, this causes a major security hole. If you have any bugs that allow arbitrary code execution or spawning of new processes then you have basically given the user full admin rights to the system. I know you've said you can't change your software b…
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