security
New and Improved Sudo for Vista (now remembers credentials)
In one of my earlier blog post I shared source code for a simple utility that I had made. It could be used to launch elevated processes from the command line.
So opening a Elevated command prompt was as simple as writing
sudo cmd
Actually the code for this is very simple as it just executes a well [...]
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The following ruby script when given any executable file path as the argument runs it in administrative mode.
1: require ‘Win32API’
2:
3: def shell_execute(process_name)
4: process = ”
5: process.replace(process_name)
6: [...]
Disabling Vista UAC Temporarily
From Wikipedia: User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. It aims to improve the security of Windows by limiting applications to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase in privilege level, in a manner very similar to that seen in [...]
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