How to create an EventSource without admin rights?

Asked Dec 18 '15 at 08:27

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I have an scenario where I have to create event sources without admin rights as the app needs to do it at runtime.

The installer executes with admin rights so what I can do it to modify whatever it needs to be modified to avoid the need of admin rights.

Is there something I can change like permissions on registry entries, security policies or something that allows a normal user to create an EventSource?

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https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource doesn't require admin rights. Explain what you do – magicandre1981 Dec 18 '15 at 16:40
Cool. We are installing an application once in a RemoteApp server (like a Citrix server) and executing the app for several different users. Every user requires a different source to log their data. – Ignacio Soler Garcia Dec 18 '15 at 17:01
and what is now not working and why do you need admin rights? – magicandre1981 Dec 18 '15 at 17:05
To create an Eventsource you need admin rigths. – Ignacio Soler Garcia Dec 18 '15 at 17:09
no, I use it daily ;) – magicandre1981 Dec 18 '15 at 17:11
Taken from the MSDN: "To create an event source in Windows Vista and later or Windows Server 2003, you must have administrative privileges." https://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/2awhba7a(v=vs.110).aspx – Ignacio Soler Garcia Dec 18 '15 at 17:16
You need permissions not for EventSource, but for EventLog - there are different entities entirely. – Sergey Baranchenkov Dec 18 '15 at 20:50
Possible duplicate of [EventLog write permissions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14245345/eventlog-write-permissions) – Sergey Baranchenkov Dec 18 '15 at 20:54
yeah, Sergey answered it. You talk about Eventlog, not ETW Eventsource events like you tagged your question. Change your question and explain now in detail what you want to achieve. – magicandre1981 Dec 19 '15 at 07:21
Did you check my MSDN link? They talk all the time about eventsource – Ignacio Soler Garcia Dec 19 '15 at 07:42
I did. This is for Eventlog. Here admin rights are needed. This is expected. – magicandre1981 Dec 19 '15 at 16:47

How to create an EventSource without admin rights?

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