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sudoWn - superuser do for Windows

"The sudoWn project can execute individual programs (or even a whole Windows shell) with temporary Administrator privileges under your user profile."

The difference between sudoWn and "Run As..." is that sudoWn launches programs under your account profile - not an Admin account.  This means that the launched programs see your Documents & Settings folders, Desktop, Start menu, etc.  sudoWn also caches the password so you don't have to keep entering it as you would with Run As... 

So, pretty cool tool [and it's GPL]... more info at: http://sudown.mine.nu/

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Tate 18 years ago

> Is there a way to restrict this application and have it run only for a list of specific applications?

I don't know, but would suspect not. Not sure why you'd want to restrict it anyway as you need to provide the username/password?

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steve gerson 18 years ago

I agree that this is a cool tool but a user now has permissions to run this for everything and anything. Is there a way to restrict this application and have it run only for a list of specific applications?



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