Running an external application WITHOUT administrator right from a C# application that has administrator right

Question

I have written C# application that needs administrator privilege. So I manually changed the property of its executable to run as administrator. So it is running as administrator.

Now, this executable needs to run an external application. When I use Process.start(...); command the external application is automatically executed with administrator privilege. This is not good for my purpose.

Is there anyway to run the external application without administrator right from C#?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '15 at 22:55

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You can run the application under another user:

Process p = new Process("...");
p.StartInfo.UserName = "...";
p.StartInfo.Password = "...";
p.Start();

answered Mar 05 '15 at 22:55

RagtimeWilly

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What if there is no other user? – NESHOM Mar 05 '15 at 22:58
Sorry, this solution would only work if you were able to create an account with the appropriate permissions to run the application – RagtimeWilly Mar 05 '15 at 23:10

Running an external application WITHOUT administrator right from a C# application that has administrator right

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