{"id":236,"date":"2005-04-24T04:58:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/24\/allow-non-administrators-to-run-autocad-etc\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:48:10","slug":"allow-non-administrators-to-run-autocad-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/allow-non-administrators-to-run-autocad-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow non administrators to run Autocad etc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some applications like autocad require the current user to be logged in as an administrator in order to use them and as you can imagine thats not a good idea. Esp if this makes you give admin access to users who are likely to install random software and otherwise mess up a perfectly good system.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid this situation follow the following instructions by Anomic Anomaly posted on the Security Basics mailing list:<\/p>\n<p>1. Grab &#8216;FileMon&#8217; and &#8216;RegMon&#8217; (both free) from <a href='http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/'>SysInternals<\/a><br \/>\n2. Run AutoCad and monitor the changes made to the filesystem and registry.<br \/>\n3. Modify permissions <strong>only<\/strong> on those specific areas and give the user access to them<br \/>\n4. Watch your users happily run AutoCad as a User.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some applications like autocad require the current user to be logged in as an administrator in order to use them and as you can imagine thats not a good idea. Esp if this makes you give admin access to users who are likely to install random software and otherwise mess up a perfectly good system. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}