Run as Admin with Encrypted Password

RUNASPC can provide a stop gap to proper PM.....

Programs that have to run as admin present an issue – never really goes away because of bad programmers.

I’d love to harp on about application control and Privilege management, and I will – but there is a quick and dirty temporary solution.

Create a Local Admin on the PC with a strong secret password like APPUSER1 and @£$%TIAN!@@$

Then use the below free tool - RunasPC

http://www.robotronic.de/guidance.html

To create a exe with the embedded user and password details that ARE encrypted.

Run the utility with the encrypted file and it runs/calls the program as localadmin

User remains normal for all other functions.

it’s not perfect! Hopefully that program can’t call explorer etc otherwise admin to the machine is available, but it’s better than giving out Local Admin?

This will work until the local admin user password is changed. Or you change/remove it. (You could use a domain user but this would have issues off NET, and when the password policy changes it)

Thanks All.....