HomeWelcome to nonadmin.editme.com! This is a community site for PC users who want to run without administrator privileges (also known as least-privileged user accounts or limited-user accounts). Running as non-admin is a great way to improve your computer's security, and you don't need to buy any extra software to do it! Where to go from here- Read the site announcement to understand why this wiki is here
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Friday January 11th 2008
Sudo For Windows (Sudowin) has been updated to work with Vista UAC. The update (sudowin-0.4.1-r185) is available from http://sudowin.sourceforge.net/ - Kiliman
Wednesday January 9th 2008
Launch Admin now uses Windows Explorer rather than Internet Explorer to invoke explorer windows. This means that it can now be used on Windows XP/2K3 with IE7 installed. The update is available from http://launch-admin.sourceforge.net - Patrick Rynhart
Tuesday September 18th
Aaron Margosis continues to be the best single source of non-admin information out there. He has a new Table of Contents, and has started talking about Vista.
Tuesday March 27th
The "Security At Home" section on microsoft.com now includes an article on "How the right user account can help your computer security" - added to Other Resources and Running As Non Admin - Jonathan Hardwick
Monday March 26th
The Windows UAC team have done a Going Deep interview on Channel 9 - Jonathan Hardwick
Sunday March 25
Long time no edit! I've started catching up with a backlog of saved articles - Jonathan Hardwick
Tuesday August 1
Aaron Margosis has a new article out in TechNet Magazine, called "Problems of Privilege: Find and Fix LUA Bugs". If you're an admin trying to work around LUA bugs in the applications that your users want to run, this is the article for you! - Jonathan Hardwick
Friday July 14
I've added ACL View to the useful tools section. ACLView allows you to view and edit file system ACLs in Windows XP Home without having to boot into safe mode. It also works with other versions of Windows and contains features that the built in security tab in explorer lacks. -Paul Blair
Sunday June 25
Launch Admin has been updated to optionally prompt for an administrator's password before each administrative tool is opened. The requirement for a password at startup can also be set via a registry key. The update is available from http://launch-admin.sourceforge.net
Saturday June 24
After two people told me that Sudo for Windows was not working with AD accounts I started to think there was a problem. Long story short, I had a local account with the same name so I did not realize this during testing. An all-night coding session later and Sudo for Windows 0.1.1-r95 was just released.
Saturday June 24
Added page for Sudo For Windows (Sudowin). This is easily the most advanced, secure, extensible, and easy-to-use implementation of sudo for Windows.
Wednesday June 21
I've added a page for a great new tool called sudo Wn, which operates much like WinSUDO, but is written in .NET and has a much better interface. - Paul Blair
Thursday June 15
Added link to 1 Defender add-in for IE
Sunday June 11
Added Browsing As Non Admin (page in progress)
Monday June 5
A couple of new articles in Press Articles: "Microsoft may restrict its workers' PC rights" (employees historically have always had admin rights), and "Security feature in Microsoft's new Windows could drive users nuts" (the Vista pop-ups issue hits the mainstream press)
Friday June 2
Moved older questions off How can I lock down the Control Panel... to Older Questions
Launch Admin is a new tool designed to be used with MakeMeAdmin. It adds an icon to the system tray and allows Administrative tasks to performed easily. The homepage for Launch Admin is http://launch-admin.sourceforge.net
Tuesday January 24
I've added a page for a new tool I'm writing called WinSUDO . It takes the concept of MakeMeAdmin further, allowing you to launch almost any program under your own account, but with an administrative token, by right-clicking on a shortcut or executable and selecting 'sudo' from the menu. -Paul Blair
I've added a page for [User Access Control], the new name for the non-admin-by-default behavior of Windows Vista - Jonathan Hardwick
Monday January 23
Updates to the Other Resources page, including two level-300 webcasts and two white papers. In particular, Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to User Accounts on Windows XP is a new white paper that is the single most authoritative source of LUA information published by Microsoft. If you're only going to read one document, read this. It's a 25-page download. - Jonathan Hardwick
Sunday January 22
Ok, I've got a whole bunch of queued-up content, so look for lots of edits over the next few days. First up, several mentions of LUA in the press, on the Press Articles page - Jonathan Hardwick
Sunday October 30
adminfoo.net has a great post that summarizes the non-admin problem this way:
START
Q. Why is Windows so insecure?
A. Because everyone runs as Administrator.
Q. Why does everyone run as Administrator (even when they know better)?
A. Because they don't understand security and are afraid they will be prevented from doing things.
Q. Why don't they understand security?
A. Because they run as Administrator, bypassing all security.
LOOP TO START
Thursday October 6
tecole added a page about a cool freeware tool SUperior SU that allows instantly switching desktops between different users, scripting, and more.
Wednesday Jul 27
kobak added a page about the commercial tool RunAs Professional
Tuesday July 12
Created a new page for SafeDisc, a Microsoft utility that lets you run more games as a non-administrator - Jonathan Hardwick
Saturday July 9
Added links to the webcast of Aaron Margosis's session from TechEd. I also cleaned up a couple of pages, using the new HTML scrubbing feature that editme.com just rolled out - Jonathan Hardwick
Monday June 27
I've created Press Articles as a place to list news articles that mention running as a non-admin - Jonathan Hardwick
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