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RE: Disabling sharing and group policies

From: Laura A. Robinson (larobinsbellatlantic.net)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 12:10:15 CDT


The easiest way to know what should or should not be in an application for
these purposes is to read the application specification for Windows 200x,
which is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/partners/isvs/cfw.mspx.

HTH,

Laura

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Suhovey [mailto:asuhoveymtu-net.ru]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:36 PM
> To: 'Ansgar Wiechers'; focus-mssecurityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Disabling sharing and group policies
>
>
> > I still don't see why you won't remove your users from the
> > local administrators' group and spare yourself the trouble.
>
> > I haven't run into a single application that couldn't
> > be persuaded to run with reduced privileges.
>
> [Sorry if it is offtopic...]
>
> Why administrators must pesuade some applications to run with
> reduced privileges anyway? I mean, why don't software
> developers care about that in first place? Isn't that strange
> when you must have Administrator privileges to just... Scan a
> picture? Write to CD? Whatever *not-administrative* tasks...
>
> Can you please point me to some public source of information
> about common ways to make an application to run under user
> privileges if it won't? As I understand, one should run some
> filemon- regmon-like tools to monitor application and then
> make resources needed by app to be available under user
> account. Is there any otner tips you can share?
>
> Thanks,
> Al.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ansgar Wiechers [mailto:bugtraqplanetcobalt.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:46 AM
> > To: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
> > Subject: Re: Disabling sharing and group policies
> >
> >
> > On 2003-09-10 Matthew Wagenknecht wrote:
> > > I'm looking for a solution to keep honest people honest..
> I will be
> > > monitoring the network for Everyone shares. If I find any,
> > I will know
> > > that it was intentional to circumvent the Group Policy. That way I
> > > don't have to deal with "I didn't know any better".. I'm
> > not looking
> > > for a DoD implementation.
> >
> > I still don't see why you won't remove your users from the
> > local administrators' group and spare yourself the trouble.
> > Please don't give me that old "our applications require this"
> > crap. I haven't run into a single application that couldn't
> > be persuaded to run with reduced privileges.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ansgar Wiechers
> >
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