Admin prermissions required

[Jogador]

Greetings,

have run Clinent-Installer.exe, which requested Admin rights.
After this, launching Elite-Dangerous-Launcher, created during installation on desktop, it again requests Admin credetials to be entered.

Why must the program to be run with admin-rights?:S
For me it is unusual and dubious to run a game with admin rights. No other game does this.

For those who wonder why I post this in the foum and not ask the developers: they got no time to answer 3 tickets I've filed last week, apparently busy with more important work - I hope.


Any hints?
Wolf

 

[xondk]

Sounds like you are using a guest or 'standard' windows account and not an admin/primary account. If so could be that admin has set up the computer to do so?

 

[ZeeWolf]

I wouldn't say no other game does it. I have a few under Steam that do it (I remember Mass Effect wouldn't run under my regular account for example).

Really wouldn't be acceptable in a Linux/Unix environment. I always run windows as a non admin user but unlike other O/S Windows programs think that's an edge case in 2015.

 

[Jogador]

OK, I see your points.

Of course I run my apps under standard user rights, regardless if windows or linux/unix.
Running SW with admin rights, particulary network applications, are questionable in an environment with online banking, etc.etc.
In terms of safety it is not advisable to do this.

Consequently, this means to run the program in an isolated OS - a separate machine is required.
Gonna check if it runs under VMware.

 

[Tiamat]

This is largely Microsoft's fault. When they introduced UAC they declared most of the locations software makers had been using for years off-limits and expected everybody to recode their apps overnight. Apps are now expected to survive on read access only pretty much everywhere including Program Files. Even worse if you try using the old standard folders/registry paths they silently redirect things so in some cases even developers can't tell where their data is going to end up.

The launcher requires UAC elevation because it needs to be able to write updates and setting to whatever folder you installed to and depending on where you chose it might be protected. The launcher then launches the game and as the launcher is elevated and child processes it spawns are also elevated by default.

What is worse is that UAC is trivial to bypass so you get a load of headaches for your apps and nothing but an illusion of security. That is not even taking into account that UAC has trained users to blindly click "yes" to every UAC prompt without considering what the app is actually doing.

I fully expect this mess to get worse with Windows 10 when I delve into it a little more.