Run InstantSupport as admin

[netman]

Hi!

First of all: I really love ChunkVNC, I was looking for it for a long time!

There is one thing I didn't manage to accomplish properly.

According to this post: [topic=17598][/topic]

The InstantSupport.exe should require admin-privileges when it is run as soon as I put the #RequireAdmin in the InstantSupport.au3.

I did that and compiled the InstantSupport.exe but when I run it on a PC it does not have the little shield telling me that it will ask for admin-privileges when run and it seems like it does not run with admin-priviliges (UAC-requests freeze my viewer).

When I then right click it and explicitly run it with admin-privileges then the UAC no longer freezes the Viewer.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

[supercoe]

netman,

Glad you like ChunkVNC.

At this point in time it's preferred that you use the InstantSupport tray icon to install as a service so you can control UAC prompts. Future releases will have the ability to temporarily disable UAC without having to install.

[netman]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I am really looking forward to the next release, even though I am already happy with 3.1.

But is the #RequireAdmin-option not working at the moment? I guess it should indicate with the little shield in the symbol that it wants to be run as admin, right? At least I have seen that on other executables.


Cheers
netman

[supercoe]

#requireadmin allows the InstantSupport script to run as an administrator but the current way that InstantSupport executes the UltraVNC server won't allow you to control them.

I have some functioning code that I've been trying to get out the door now for months now that has "disable UAC" code without having to install the service. It's been so long since I've looked at 3.1 code that I don't remember how it worked before.

I know I've said this many times before but stay tuned, good things are coming.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, sure. I've been waiting here so long I turned into a mod.

Seriously, looking forward to it.

"ChunkVNC - Duke Nukem Forever Edition"?

[supercoe]

lol, I'm using that release name!

At this point it seems that Winter/Spring time is easier for me to get projects done. Summer is crazy but Minnesota winters cool people off.

BTW: you were a mod before you just didn't have the fun buttons.

[B]

Yeah I guess so.

Anyhow, I just found the following via Fark -- I swear it was after I wrote the above -- Duke has a new release date "by the end of the year"*.

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/duke-nukem-for ... 669p1.html



*for a "playable demo"

[tbote]

#requireadmin allows the InstantSupport script to run as an administrator but the current way that InstantSupport executes the UltraVNC server won't allow you to control them.

I have some functioning code that I've been trying to get out the door now for months now that has "disable UAC" code without having to install the service. It's been so long since I've looked at 3.1 code that I don't remember how it worked before.

I know I've said this many times before but stay tuned, good things are coming.

I was working in the UAC but I think that it's a no-way road. If we want to get access to a PC that is in user-mode and we don't have admin pwd, I can imagine how to disable UAC.

If the user is administrator the #requireadmin and install as service is enough, but all other ways (runas, registry) will not work in user-mode without an admin accont, isn't it?

[B]

Not sure I follow you -- the persistent UAC is by design (Microsoft's). Of course you're not going to be able to disable it without some kind of administrator rights...

If UltraVNC could continue running in the background so that you could remotely answer UAC prompts (without admin rights) then <b>any</b> remote control trojan could do the same thing...

[tbote]

Not sure I follow you -- the persistent UAC is by design (Microsoft's). Of course you're not going to be able to disable it without some kind of administrator rights...

If UltraVNC could continue running in the background so that you could remotely answer UAC prompts (without admin rights) then <b>any</b> remote control trojan could do the same thing...

And that's why the UAC issue will be allways there All people is talking about workarounds etc but there is no way to disable/control UAC unless you have admin rights. RunAS also that's not a solution because it still launches UAC message

[supercoe]

Correct, the only way to disable UAC requires admin privileges which prompts UAC. It is impossible to disable the UAC prompts without administrator access to the computer.