We have a situation (and will have a larger one come Windows 7) in our XP environment where certain programs need to be run under the current user. In the environment however, the current user has no admin rights. They cannot install software. To accomplish this in the GUI, we could Right Click, and choose Run As, and then put in the Admin credentials.
How can we do this in Big Fix? How can we install as the Current User when the Current User does not have Admin Rights?
Not securely, there isn’t. You’d have to pass the credentials to psexec or runas (with an echo pipe). I’ve seen customers write little wrappers in scripting languages and compile them to obfuscate the credentials, but that seems like a lot of work to solve a problem in the wrong way… if that admin wins the lottery and disappears, it’s hard for someone else to figure out what’s being done.
To me the question would be “Why do these programs need admin rights?”. Does the application still work as a Power User? That user group allows users to change settings but still not install applications. If that user group works then you can just make a job that adds the users as a local Power User to their computers.