"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
> news:OHl%23NST1IHA.416@xxxxxx Quote:
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>> "Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:esGCddy0IHA.6096@xxxxxx Quote:
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>>> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
>>> news:eX3%23$zw0IHA.4164@xxxxxx
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>>>> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
>>>> news:uOPD9Qk0IHA.4476@xxxxxx
>>>>> On some Vista Business systems I deploy, I need to be able to give
>>>>> non-admin uers the ability to chkdsk drives. I found the "Perform
>>>>> volume maintenance tasks" user rights policy, but that isn't doing
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know if it is even possible (I know some things can only be
>>>>> done by Administrators), and if so, how?
>>>>>
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>>>> Widening the net to include a couple of additional newsgroups...
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>>>> Does anyone know if this can be done, and of so, how?
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>>> Even on XP, I don't think you can run ChKdsk without admin rights on
>>> XP if the file system is NTFS and you can't do it on Vista with the
>>> file system being NTFS. The only way you can do it is if the file
>>> system is FAT32 -- no security.
>>>
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>> That's what I was afraid of. Any idea why this would be restricted
>> to administrators only?
>> >
> Because they are administrators that administer the O/S? I'm aparently not being clear, so let me try again:
Why can't I as an administrator give the ability to do any administrator
task to another user without giving them the ability to do ALL
administrator tasks? That design seems lacking to me.
Regards,
Dave