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Old 06-24-2008   #6 (permalink)
Dave R.


 
 

Re: How to give non-admin user ability to chkdsk drive?


"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
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>> "Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
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>>>> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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?
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> 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


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