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Sudo For Windows, (Fri, Jun 23rd)

The good folks over at the ISC turned me on to something that I wished I’d known about a long time ago.  Now, I’m familliar with sudo for *nix, but I was never aware of sudo for Windows.  This definatley is a more elegant solution than Microsoft’s DromMyPantsRights.  DropMyPantsRights allows an administrative user on a windows pc to run a program as a user with lower rights (such as IE) – which you need to specify individually.  What a mess!

Sudo for windows works just like sudo for *nix.  Configured properly, you run as a regular (non-admin) user, and when you want to so something that requires administrative rights, you use your own password to authenticate – a much better model.

Please go check out the post at the ISC below, and get your windows users out of the admin groups!

– L 

Sudo For Windows

Larry Pesce

Larry’s core specialties include hardware and wireless hacking, architectural review, and traditional pentesting. He also regularly gives talks at DEF CON, ShmooCon, DerbyCon, and various BSides. Larry holds the GAWN, GCISP, GCIH, GCFA, and ITIL certifications, and has been a certified instructor with SANS for 5 years, where he trains the industry in advanced wireless and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) hacking. Larry’s independent research for the show has led to interviews with the New York Times with MythBusters’ Adam Savage, hacking internet-connected marital aids on stage at DEFCON, and having his RFID implant cloned on stage at Shmoocon. When not hard at work, Larry enjoys long walks on the beach weighed down by his ham radio, (DE KB1TNF), and thinking of ways to survive the impending zombie apocalypse.

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