I ordered a data-logger for a work-related project, Which comes with windows software and need admin priviledge (that I don’t have due to corporate IT policies). So I lost 2h going to the IT department trying to get someone with admin right installing this driver :(
What’s the reason hardware come mostly with Windows driver (rather than Linux) and why do these software/driver need admin privilege for installation where their customer base are professional who often don’t have the right privilege on their PC ? Is there something technically forcing the privilege elevation to install a driver ?
Gross. Tell your IT director about solutions to this problem, like autoelevate or similar. I mean there’s a security tradeoff but, you can have windows prompts for admins automatically prompt an IT admin to review and enter their credentials or deny and request more info. And it’s a very easy deployment for any intermediate IT person.
Edit: autoelevate DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY ALLOW.
https://www.autoelevate.com/
Christ. I mean, bad job on the devs naming it but don’t downvote me based on a couple dumbass knee jerk responses. It does this appropriately. Lemmy sucks sometimes.
No competent IT director would allow that.
Maybe google it before pretending you know what it does based on the name?
https://www.autoelevate.com/
Talk about something no competent IT director would do 🙄.
No change control on admin privileges… that can’t be bad right lol
Actually, we do have now an approved way to get admin privileges through a dedicated application. However, on my experience if you run one installer it works, but if the installer calls for a second installer (let’s say one for the driver and a ne for the software). So I end up having to still bother IT.
there’s software to do this appropriately like ThreatLocker for example but in most cases Auto elevation is a horrible idea from a security standpoint
Autoelevate does handle this appropriately.
It automatically sends the prompt to a designated group of admin users for review. It 100% removes admin rights from end user machines.
It doesn’t automatically allow anything.
https://www.autoelevate.com/
So many people in this thread responding to text without looking into anything – talk about bad security practices.
I think there are multiple things called autoelevate then.
Top Google result.
that means fucking nothing these days
https://github.com/FULLSHADE/Auto-Elevate