How To? Granting specific permissions to non admin accounts.

vpwin7 · 18 Apr 2012

I have an account set up for my girlfriend which contains a password on the username. I would use a shared account but I do not want her to have the escalated security levels, which could potentially harm my computer.

Well, I have a pain in the butt wireless adapter which on occasion only wants to work after I disable and re-enable my network adapter. This is however not possible on non-admin accounts without a password. Is there any way I can grant specific permissions to alternative accounts giving her the ability to toggle my network card?

V43L1N · 19 Apr 2012

This may help you:

What you can do is create an elevated shortcut to the network adapters.
-Log in to her account
-right click on her desktop and select "create new"
-select "shortcut"
-Copy and paste the following into the shortcut:

Code:

runas /user:%computername%:youradminname /savecred "control.exe ncpa.cpl"

Replace youradminname with your admin account name.

-click next
-name it whatever you wish

-Now, run it and enter your admin account password. (Note you will not see the characters you are typing appear in the command prompt window THIS IS NORMAL)
-Hit enter
-Close the network adapters window
-Open it again and verify that it does not prompt for your admin account password
-Test to make sure you can disable and re-enable the wireless network adapter.

This will give her administrative access to the network adapters portion of the control panel.

Let me know how this works for you, I will check back in a few hours.