Timeline for How can I allow non-administrators to use shutdown.exe?
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| Sep 18, 2015 at 8:24 | answer | added | Klaus Hartnegg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 18, 2011 at 22:36 | vote | accept | Naftuli Kay | ||
| Sep 8, 2011 at 18:33 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | @MSalters: No, it cannot, but a Domain Admin, like Administrator, has sufficient privileges to elevate themselves to SYSTEM when necessary, and domain-wide admin privileges cannot be revoked as easily. | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 13:46 | comment | added | MSalters | @grawity: I don't think SYSTEM can hold any rights in the network domain. That just reinforces your conclusion: The Windows NT security model is safer (more robust) precisely because it's harder to gain all rights. Unix root is far too convenient, hence sudo | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 6:58 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | Unix root has absolute control. Windows Administrators do not; only SYSTEM does. (As you can see in your own screenshot, many privileges are assigned to Administrators just like a normal group, and can be revoked.) In a sense, Windows can be more secure -- most of its insecurity is caused by software bugs and by "first user is an administrator" default settings in XP and older. | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 5:17 | answer | added | surfasb | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 4:12 | history | edited | Naftuli Kay |
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| Sep 7, 2011 at 4:02 | answer | added | Harry Johnston | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 23:29 | comment | added | Naftuli Kay |
Hmm. Well, Linux is normally pretty secure, and I can simply sudo crontab -e and add 0 23 * * * shutdown -P now. What could possibly be so hard for an administrator account on Windows to shut down the computer at a given time each day?
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 23:27 | comment | added | Hand-E-Food | Windows requires a password for remote desktop and other network administration operations because it'd just be too big of a security hole to have it any other way. On top of that, many people would first blame Microsoft's poor security rather than their own negligence if they were hacked. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 23:10 | history | edited | Naftuli Kay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 23:05 | comment | added | Naftuli Kay | Locally, haven't tried psshutdown. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 23:04 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | Is the scheduled task running on the machine you want to shut down, or remotely? Have you tried using psshutdown instead of shutdown? | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 17:33 | answer | added | grawity_u1686 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 17:18 | history | asked | Naftuli Kay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |