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User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed version also present in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 10.

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How does Cloud-init impose user settings, defined through cloud init?

to all the Cloud-init experts: Recently, I've been trying to play around with cloud-init's capabilities for user account creation and management. I wanted to forbid root ssh login and to create another sudo user that needs no password for sudo. I do…
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Windows "User Account Control" Prompt Icon Size

The Windows "User Account Control" dialog displays an icon for the application it is asking about. The icon in the window is 40x40. My executable includes an ICO file with 32x32 and 40x40 icons. Windows uses the 32x32 image and scales it up to…
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What about an .exe indicates to Windows that it's an Installer?

I use a small installer file to launch a licensing program and then launch our program. but the small installer triggers User Account Control on Windows 7 and above (if UAC is set. (See screenshot). I guess I could just rewrite it but just hoping…
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How to get return value of an executed program that is warned by User Account Control (Java)?

I am writing a program that downloads exe file, which is created with innosetup, from remote server and runs this exe file to update my application automatically. Due to not having any signed certificate, my OS(Windows 11) is warning me by User…
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Find Window "User Access Control Settings" / "Benutzerkontensteuerung" and Click No/Nein

I must start an application and I must check that the application tells me it works with the correct signature.This information is shown via the "User Access Control" Dialog. Because the system stops after process.Start I do this job in…
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C# How to get the AD user cannot change the password property from LDAP attribute userAccountControl?

I am trying to get the user account control properties using library Novell.Directory.Ldap in ASP .NET Core 5. When I search the users attributes I found the attribute name userAccountControl which is set to some number. After searching solution I…
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How do I run a script with elevated UAC permissions using ctypes?

I'm attempting to create a utility tool via Python 3.x for the Windows 10 command-line. Since it will better format general command-line commands into more user-friendly menus, I want it to require elevated permissions through UAC when it runs. I'm…
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Windows 10: after gaining remote access, remotely start Quick Assist as .\Administrator without UAC, or temporarily disable UAC

I'd like a script to be used in this situation: gain remote access without admin privileges remotely start Quick Assist as .\Administrator and not have a UAC dialogue. Step 1 is usually made with Quick Assist, sometimes made with Teams screen…
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Why can't I type in letters in the USERNAME field in drupal 7 user account page?

I am trying to login to my Drupal 7 website. Not sure why but when I try to type in my username "admin" in the username field it won't type anything at all. When I try to type in numbers though "4214214" it lets me type it in. Anyone have this…
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Can I run a command before the setup.msi?

I have a desktop application and its installer project produces two files in the Release folder: let's call them setup.exe and setup.msi. In the post build event I sign the setup.msi with a self signed certificate. Then my final installation batch…
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Run a Command as Administrator with Elevated Flag (with known password)

I have a VB.net application that needs to be run by standard users but there are certain functions that need to be run as local administrator with an elevated flag (or LSA, Trusted installer, or other system account for all I care). This is a helper…
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Change display name of Windows account

I'm currently trying to find out where I can change the display name of a windows account with C#. After a while of searching I found the "NetUserSetInfo" function provided by the netapi32.dll. But to me it looks like the display name can only be…
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User account control can not be disabled from command prompt

I want to disable UAC on each client computers remotely via an application which executes commands on computer. When I execute the command below: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD…
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Get all users from active directory using filter

I'm trying to use below script to get all active users from AD, however, I don't get any results although I know there are data with value 512. Do you know what I have wrong here? Get-ADUser -filter {$userAccountControl -eq "512"} -properties…
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How to create an Administrator account in a standard user?

I'm having a standard user and I Can't create a new administrator user. B'coz my Admin user is deleted by some problem. B'coz the User Account Control box is showing. and I can't click the yes button. So, please help me to solve this. I'm using…
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