<div>Nono my program only need admin privileges to send packets (apart from installing it of course) i will try what you have said and ill see if it works. I will tell you if it goes fine </div>
<div>Thanks<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/6/9, Bryan Kadzban <<a href="mailto:bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net">bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Nick Duda wrote:<br>> Just an option, but, we use Application Security<br>> (<a href="http://www.desktopstandard.com">
www.desktopstandard.com</a>) to elevate winpcap to run as an admin for<br>> non admins on execution of a program that uses it. It's been working<br>> great.<br><br>I still think that just doing an "sc config npf start= auto" (yes, I
<br>think I misspoke earlier again; I now believe it should be auto, not<br>automatic) once, at install time, is easier. (You only need to run a<br>winpcap program as an admin once per boot, not all the time. The only<br>
thing that requires admin privileges is starting the driver(s).)<br><br>Then you don't have to worry about programs running with too many<br>privileges ever (and *perhaps* being vulnerable to buffer overflows,<br>which would give admin access to the machine if exploited), and you also
<br>don't have to worry about one more program/driver/whatever that might<br>break. The fewer required components, the better.<br><br>Not saying that product is useless in general, but in this case, it<br>seems to be slightly pointless when you can work around the requirement
<br>with one command that runs once.<br><br>Unless the process that's using winpcap is also doing other things that<br>require admin privileges, that is?<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Winpcap-users mailing list
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