I've read several questions regarding UAC and privilege elevation but I've not found a satisfactory/comprehensive answer. I have this scenario: on Windows 6 or above, when the user opens a configu...

My application does not always require "admin" privileges and most of the time would run as the current user. Is there any way, I can escalate privs by throwing up a UAC at runtime after my program...

With the help of this great MSDN article, my first idea was to simply check if the process is using an elevated Administrator group, and using AdjustTokenGroups() I would set the Administrator grou...

I had to do a dirty Linux hack for somebody so they could start a printer with the cupsenable printername shell command while being a non-root user. I didn't want them to be able to use the entiret...