Removing Admin Rights

Hi
To get an audible account to register in itunes I had to give an account Admin rights... now I want to take the Admin rights away from the user, but can't seem to do it.
Can someone tell me how to remove Admin rights (the tick box is currently 'greyed' out in the preferences box)?
Thanks in advance!

you may have abandoned this thread, but in case not could I suggest you do not delete the second admin. Apples dictum, a good one, is have a reserve admin. One can, I have had one, a failure of an admin, and used the reserve admin to fix it. I keep two admins on each machine. One is just kept in reserve so as 'not damaged by use'. I exercise it every so often.
If you log in from a blank dialogue box you will not even see the name except in the users folder or some other esoteric listings.
Of course you do 'always' have another admin in root but it is a clart enabling it and disabling it which one should always do after use of root.

Similar Messages

Using Send Unix to remove admin rights

If we want to remove a user's admin rights, is there a quick and dirty way to do this using the Send Unix Command to a Leopard client?

Try the following:
dscl localonly -delete /Local/Target/Groups/admin users theaccount
where theaccount is the account's short name. This command needs to run as root, and is designed for Mac OS X 10.5.
(32914)

Remove Admin Rights

I recently bought a Mac and set up my daughter as the default account. Now I realize I should have set up an Admin account and then set my daughter up as a regular user so I can use parental controls. I set up am Admin account for me but can't seem to remove my daughter's Admin rights through the usual account settings. Any advice? Maybe there's some tricky way to do this using the root account?
If all that fails, is there an easy way to copy all her stuff intact into a newly created account?
Thanks

No. All admin accounts are the same. Sounds like if you've done what's been suggested, then your system may be corrupted in some way. If it is then you will need to reinstall Snow Leopard.
Reinstalling Snow Leopard
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
Reinstall OS X: Snow Leopard's installer will not erase your hard drive and will preserve all your data, users, network preferences, and third-party applications and their support files.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

How can I remove admin rights to a mobile user group

Hi Every one.
I am using Snow Leopard in an environment of about 1200 users. I need to strip the admin rights (i presume by a script accessing DCSL) from a group of Mobile Account users.
Does any body have suggestions on how to do this?
thanks
Matt

Sorted out using DSCL in a script.

Removing User Admin Rights

I am currently assisting in managing a domain of 3-4000 users. All of our users have administrative privileges on their machines. We are looking into several different ways of removing these administrative rights for obvious security reasons.
I have read about privilege management software like Avecto, but it would be great if you could utilize something like Restricted Groups in Active Directory or SCCM 2012R2 to achieve this somehow.
I read about Restricted Groups here:
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/windows_os_security/Using-Restricted-Groups.html
I am wondering if we can achieve this by deploying these Restricted Group GPO's. I understand that these GPO's are linked to computer accounts though, but from what I am under the impression I can restrict adding accounts to the admin group and explicitly
allow other accounts.
Our AD functional level is 2008R2 and 99% of our workstations are running Win7 32-bit. Has anyone had any experience removing user administrative rights without purchasing third-party software?

We are in the process of deploying Avecto Privilege Guard (new name is DefendPoint).
We are doing this in conjunction with revising our GPP-Local Users & Groups settings (which we decided to use some time ago, instead of using classic Restricted Groups).
You'll need to use some method (and GP seems to be a good one) to take control of the local Administrators group membership.
Avecto PG can/will block all attempts to modify that group (due to its anti-tamper protections), but, presumably like us, you will need to evict unauthorised members of that group, and then protect that group from further modifications.
We also found, that the anti-tamper protections of Avecto PG, even prevent GP from cleaning up the group members, and it was suggested to us by Avecto support, that we create Avecto PG policy which allows the LocalSystem to bypass the protection. (GP CSE's
like this, will run in LocalSystem context)
You don't need Avecto PG to remove admin rights, you can do it with Domain GP. But, how do you maintain that position/integrity? And, how do you then allow users to perform some tasks, tasks which require privilege but your organisation approves of those
tasks being performed by users, but Windows doesn't allow that?
There are many types of technical controls to implement "security" (if that is your goal), but, you will find that each and every control can be bypassed with enough time and effort. Especially if your users are the determined type of person, who
also considers that their need to "do that thing" will make them productive/happy - they will ignore all company policies in pursuit of that productivity/happiness (or so it seems to me from my experience)
IT Support efforts/costs will rise, not drop - we are seeing this already.
Hatred towards IT (both systems and the people in IT) is also rising.
Don
(Please take a moment to "Vote as Helpful" and/or "Mark as Answer", where applicable.
This helps the community, keeps the forums tidy, and recognises useful contributions. Thanks!)

Firefox Silent updater will not work unless I launch Firefox.exe one time with Admin rights

I am building a Firefox 17.0.4 ESR package to use for my Enterprise. Everything is working great except for the updater piece. I am using the configuration.ini file during the install with the command MaintenanceService=true turned on, and a mozilla.cfg file with updates enabled, pref("app.update.enabled", true). I am running the install both manually, and through SCCM with Admin rights, including the maintenance service. After the install runs, I open Firefox as a limited user and go to Help->About, and it says Updates are available at www.firefox.com, and that the browser is set to the ESR release channel.
In all my troubleshooting, the only 2 sure ways I have found that make the auto updates work for a user were to run firefox.exe as an admin 1 time, or to install the base esr package as an admin after my install package. That will fix it for the logged in user only, but another user would run into the same issue. It appears that something is not installing correctly, but I cannot determine the cause.
My install command is:
Firefox Setup 17.0.3esr.exe /INI=%INST%\Configuration.ini

In my organization, we have removed Admin rights from all users, but use a product that can elevate any .exe with create a policy for to run with Admin rights. We have a policy set for updater.exe and it does work for future updates, just not this first update after install until Firefox itself is run as Admin for the first time. My thought is that when Firefox and the Maintenance service are installed with Admin rights through SCCM, the maintenance service should have inherited rights from that install. Forgive me if I am wrong in my conclusion.

AD users losing admin rights when working offline.

We have recently started using AD accounts on our Macs but a critical problem has presented itself.
Under 'Allow administration by' we are using a domain group called 'Domain Users' and this works fine when users are connected to our corporate network but when they are offline and not able to see the AD servers at login they lose their admin rights.
So even if you create a mobile account this settings has to be validated every time the user logs on.
It has been suggested to use the following command to correct the problem but this has no effect:
"sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a "domain\groupname" -t group admin"
Has anyone successfully found a workaround for this problem?

Yep. That is the side effect of the evolution of AD integration. Many more things are live look ups. Have you tried password protected screen savers yet? Yep, live call to AD. The reason this is failing is the domain users is an AD group and the system can not resolve the GUID without access to the domain.
In any case, there is a way around this but it is a little messy and it breaks the whole point of using the plug in to allow for a single point of control. If you are using cached credentials, you should be able to add the user to the admin group. Once again, this posses a number of problems as you are now injecting an AD user into a local account, you have no centralized method of removing admin rights from the user, and each machine requires a custom command (you need to issue the users shortname).
Now, you other option is to say, "it is a security implementation to prevent unauthorized access to the machine when it is not under the protection of out LAN." Yep, line of garbage, but the real question is, why do they need admin rights? If for installing software, that likely should not be up to them if you are enforcing a corporate standard. I generally can't find a good argument for permitting admin rights.

Using Oracle after install without Admin rights -- Possible?

We are upgrading our company to Windows 7. Clearly, the best practice is to remove admin rights from users. I see lots of posts on inability to install Oracle without admin rights. That makes sense. Once installed though, we are hitting errors simply running Oracle without admin rights. Is there a change in our install methodology that would allow us to run Oracle without Admin rights? Any thoughts would be appreciated. We are having to run wide open right now.
Thanks,
Dave

974992 wrote:
We are upgrading our company to Windows 7. Clearly, the best practice is to remove admin rights from users. I see lots of posts on inability to install Oracle without admin rights. That makes sense. Once installed though, we are hitting errors simply running Oracle without admin rights. Is there a change in our install methodology that would allow us to run Oracle without Admin rights? Any thoughts would be appreciated. We are having to run wide open right now.
Thanks,
Davemaybe a bit more detail. It sounds like you are talking about end-user machines, in which case I would only expect the oracle client software to be installed. What exact errors are you getting?

Help with running programs that require admin rights to laptop

We are not able to run java, flash, or shockwave on our laptops unless we
log into the workstation first as an administrator. Is there a way to fix
this so that the students do not have to log onto the workstation first as
administrator?
Thanks,
Kathy

Originally Posted by Kathy
We are not able to run java, flash, or shockwave on our laptops unless we
log into the workstation first as an administrator. Is there a way to fix
this so that the students do not have to log onto the workstation first as
administrator?
Thanks,
Kathy
Hi Kathy, we have have a product that enables you to remove admin rights on XP/Vista by elevating ActiveX controls, apps, scripts etc Avecto - Eliminate Admin Rights, Implement Least Privilege

Access developer version with admin rights

I have MS SQL Server 2012 Developer version installed on my local machine using Windows 7.
I lost my access to SQL Server local developer version when my company change policy to remove admin rights to local machine for some reason.
Since I lost local machine admin rights, I am unable to access MS SQL Server 2012 developer version.
I would like to know are there any work around to access MS SQL Server 2012 Developer version without local admin rights for Windows 7.
Your help and information is great appreciated,
Regards,
Souris,

Hello Souris ,
Please , could you provide more information about your problem ?
Are you unable to create new databases ? The error messages would be appreciated.
I don't think that you have posted in the "good" forum , but for a moderator , it is difficult to find a better forum as we don't know what it is happening on your computer.
I think that you should always be able to create databases in your own directory Users\yourusername on which you should have every access rights . The main problem could be to start/stop the SQL Server service as you need some minimum administration rights.
Please , could you tell us whether the lost rights are on the Windows 7 level or on your SQL Server level ?
To connect , you should have at least the db_datareader and db_datawriter permissions on the databases you are using ( I would add db_backupoperator to restore a database in case of errors )
You should have the public and maybe dbcreator ( if you have to create new databases ) and of course your login must be enabled and have the permission to connect to the database engine .
As we don't know what your are doing with the databases with your SQL Server Developer edition , we are unable to help you without more precise information.
We are waiting for your feedback to try to help you more efficiently.
Papy
Mark Post as helpful if it provides any help.Otherwise,leave it as it is.

Restrict Standard User from not removing the COM-Addins registered under HKLM with Admin rights.

Hello,
I have developed a COM-Addin for word 2013 by VS 2013 and installed it under the HKLM with Admin rights. Now from an non-admin account, ie Standard User I'm able to uncheck that addin from the COM-Addins dialog and remove it also. Previously I have done the
same thing for word 2007 addins and if a non-admin user tries to uncheck it the warning "The
connected state of Office Add-ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed" pops
up. But this is not happening for office 2013 apps(basically word, excel and powerpoint).
This is happening for all Add-Ins installed under HKLM.
How can a Standard User be restricted from unchecking and removing the Office Addins registered under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE with same warning "The
connected state of Office Add-ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed" in
a pop-up box?
Regards, Sayan

Hi,
The behavior is changed since Office 2010. Office 2010 and Office 2013 allows a standard user to turn a per-machine add-in off by unchecking the add-in in the COM Add-ins dialog.
To restrict Standard User from not removing the COM Add-ins, we can try to add the add-in to
the Group Policy option: List of managed add-ins in the Office Group Policy template.
Word for example, the policy is under:
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Word 2013\Miscellaneous
To enable this policy setting, provide the following information for each add-in:
In "Value name", specify the programmatic identifier (ProgID) for COM add-ins, or specify the file name of Word add-ins.
To obtain the ProgID for an add-in, use Registry Editor on the client computer where the add-in is installed to locate key names under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins.
To obtain the file name of an add-in, click the File menu in the application where the add-in is installed. Click Options, click Add-ins, and then use the Location column to determine the file name of the add-in.
In "Value," specify the value as follows:
To specify that an add-in is always enabled, type 1.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

Local Admin Rights - add / remove ?

Is there a way to add and remove local admin rights for users at logon / logoff in Server 2008?
Workstations are XP sp3 and Windows 7 Sp1. We have users who move from computer to computer and they need local admin access but we would prefer to not have Domain Users have local admin rights to all PCs.

Hi,
As far as I can see we can add user to local admin group at logon, but the user should relogon to get the membership, and if we also remove the user from local admin at logoff, then this equal to do nothing.
To add a domain user to a single computer as local administrator using GPO, I would like to suggest you go through the below similar threads:
Use GPO to add a single admin user to only one computer on the domain.
http://nerddrivel.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/use-gpo-to-add-a-single-admin-user-to-only-one-computer-on-the-domain/
How do I add a domain user to a single computer as local administrator using GPO
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0a3eda5c-28ef-418e-a13d-f47fe0bf1bc3/how-do-i-add-a-domain-user-to-a-single-computer-as-local-administrator-using-gpo
Granting Local admin rights via Group Policy to a particular computer
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/4ceff330-0b72-4ed2-a55a-3089b504d2fc/granting-local-admin-rights-via-group-policy-to-a-particular-computer?forum=winserverGP
Hope this helps.
Regards, Yan Li

Some removed Domain Admin Rights

Hi,
Someone removed Domain Admin rights from my Emp ID. I want to know that who removed my access. Is that possible to find from in AD ?
Many thanks
Regards, Hari Prasad.D

Hi Hari,
No it is not possible to find in AD, Is auditing enabled ?, if yes you will find an event log:
4733
A member was removed from a security-enabled local group.
Regards

Error 175 .- CC needs admin right to install or remove add-ons - Windows 7 -

Sync files is turned on and I updated all my CC apps but can't install the Kuler extension for PS CC 2014 and other add-ons. Also, constantly getting pop-up notification "Need Admin Rights to install add-ons"."Error 175 " "Installation failed" . Windows 7, desktop & laptop. Please help to resolve this issue. Thanks. Giulio

In my understanding, you have acquired some add-ons at https://creative.adobe.com/addons, but Adobe Creative Cloud application failed to install them due to that you didn't provide the administrator right.
You can restart Adobe Creative Cloud application, then it will try to re-install all the failed add-ons, and the notification will pop-up again. You can click it and provide the administrator right.

Sql Plus worksheet (oemapp) won't start without admin rights in Oracle 9.2

My organization is removing users local admin rights on their Windows XP Professional systems. I have been tasked with enabling SQLPlus worksheet to run with power user rights. I have granted full control to all of the files on the C drive, and spent hours in the registry adding permissions. When I launch oemapp.bat, it doesn't do anything. Does anyone know how to get make this application run with power user rights?

The command "oemapp.bat" does not yield any output at the command line. Here comes a session log:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
D:\oracle\ora92\bin>oemapp.bat
D:\oracle\ora92\bin>sqlplusw
Zugriff verweigert (= access denied)
D:\oracle\ora92\bin>dir oem*
Volume in Laufwerk D: hat keine Bezeichnung.
Volumeseriennummer: A0D5-BD0B
Verzeichnis von D:\oracle\ora92\bin
17.10.2006 11:15 4.971 oemapp.bat
26.04.2002 16:29 24.848 oemautil.exe
26.04.2002 16:29 20.752 oemevent.exe
3 Datei(en), 50.571 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se), 18.221.547.520 Bytes frei
D:\oracle\ora92\bin>dir sqlplus*
Volume in Laufwerk D: hat keine Bezeichnung.
Volumeseriennummer: A0D5-BD0B
Verzeichnis von D:\oracle\ora92\bin
27.04.2002 00:07 459.024 sqlplus.exe
26.04.2002 23:58 700.416 sqlplusw.exe
2 Datei(en), 1.159.440 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se), 18.221.547.520 Bytes frei
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
I'm glad about your immediate response!
Message was edited by:
user542934

Removing Admin Rights

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for