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522696, W7: Lets Talk Standard User (Limited) vs Administrator
Posted by therube, Tue Aug-10-10 04:49 AM
W7: Lets Talk Standard User (Limited) vs Administrator

"Standard User". Limited, like they had to change the name. Guess calling it "limited" left negative connotations. Well, maybe it should.


Let me see if I've got this right.

I have two user accounts.
RUBEN & XP.

RUBEN I have set a (& I'll use) Limited.
XP I have as Administrator.

Again, there must be at least one (enabled) Administrator account.


As a Limited user, I go to run a program, or I go to run particular parts of a program.
Program (or is it Windows) says:

"An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions."


So what is one to do?
Exit Program, right-click icon, Run as Administrator.

Prompt pops up & wants my login for my Administrator account, XP.
I provide my password.
Program opens up, program runs as expected. No access permissions message.


All is well. Or is it?

Problem as I see it, & this is what I wish to verify & have a better understanding, is that I am not running in an Administrative capacity under my user, RUBEN, but I am doing so under the XP user.

I was thinking that I was elevating RUBEN from Limited to Admin for the context of the program that I selected to Run as Administrator, with XP playing into the equation only as with which to verify an Administrators login.

(Does UNIX su (super user) work that way or would newly created file shown owner as su? Can't recall from days of old).

But in actuality, when I Run as Administrator, I am running as XP? (That may be wrong.) So everything related to XP applies to the program I am running. (That may be correct.)

And in the same way, if I create files, who owns them? RUBEN or XP?
Appears that the files are owned by RUBEN.


So it is only the program being run that runs in the context of XP, & by virtue of that, the program settings set for XP?


If that is the case, that stinks!