Elevation of rights has been a battle for as long as I can remember while being 
here these 14 years, so I surely agree against having them.
But… there are exceptions, and situations where a user gets all the authorized 
approvals from management and such.

What I am after is a method to allow the approved user to self-elevate their 
rights at the given system without having to have field support interact on the 
system to do the work.
But, then after the temporary elevation of rights time expires, then the rights 
would be stripped automatically.

If that given user needs the rights again, they run the tool in Software Center 
and give themselves the elevated rights to do whatever it is that they need to 
do and then removed again.

By doing something like this, the user is not left with elevated rights but 
only is elevated to that level as is needed but can self-support to elevate if 
needed.

I think that even the most avid of Tech would be able to operate under such a 
mode because they know that they can self-elevate when needed but then are 
dropped down to standard user after the allotted time.

Rick J. Jones
Wireless from AT&T
Domestic Desktop Application Management
D: (425) 288-6240
C: (206) 419-1104

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Ryan
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:33 PM
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [mssms] Temporary Elevation to Local Admin

I would strongly advise against it, but if you are set on it I can recommend 
PowerBroker:

http://www.beyondtrust.com/Products/PowerBrokerforWindows/

It elevates programs and leaves the user with their standard rights. It can be 
horribly abused, but anything that gives a user admin rights can.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM, JONES, RICK J 
<rj7...@att.com<mailto:rj7...@att.com>> wrote:
Has anyone run across a tool or a script of any sort that could be deployed by 
SCCM to allow a user to self-elevate their rights to Local Administrator and 
then say, an hour later remove those admin rights?

I have all kinds of ideas for it, but hoping that someone has already done this.

Rick J. Jones
Wireless from AT&T
Domestic Desktop Application Management
D: (425) 288-6240<tel:%28425%29%20288-6240>
C: (206) 419-1104<tel:%28206%29%20419-1104>





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