ADSM-L

Re: NT client requires admin priv?

1998-02-27 05:04:00
Subject: Re: NT client requires admin priv?
From: Tony White <tony.white AT GTRI.GATECH DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date: Friday, February 27, 1998 10:04 AM
>OK, that's true that my users will never run the *admin* client.  But this
>"Note" was stated in the manual for the *Windows backup-archive client*
>(Chapter 2), and does not refer specifically to the admin client -
>therefore implying that Administrator priv is required even to run the
>*backup-archive* client.
>
>        Is anyone out there running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and using
the
>backup-archive GUI client while logged in as a user, without Administrator
>privs?
>
>Thanks -
>
>Tony
>-----------------------
>At 06:10 PM 2/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Your users don't need to use the admin functions or interface to do
>>backups/archives. I'm not that
>>familiar with NT but I may need to login with the admin id.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tony White [SMTP:tony.white AT GTRI.GATECH DOT EDU]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 4:56 PM
>>> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>>> Subject:      New ADSM admin - Two questions
>>>
>        <snip>
>
>>>
>>>    [The ADSM Using the Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive Clients  manual]
>>>
>>>   But it did, alarmingly, state that the ADSM client on an NT
>>> client *must* be run by user Administrator or a user in the
Administrators
>>> group.  This would make ADSM unacceptable in our environment - we
control
>>> our end-users tightly, and not one is allowed Administrator's
privileges.
>>> Sure, the scheduler obviously should run as a service, installed by
>>> Administrator - but any user should be able to run the backup/archive
>>> client for restores....
>>>
>>> So, the second question: On a Windows NT 4.0 client, is it necessary to
>>> have Administrator privs to run the v3.1 client backup/archive program?
>>>
>
>----------------------------------
>Tony White, Research Scientist II          Tony.White AT gtri.gatech DOT edu
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>
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>
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