privileges

I use regsvr32 MyCOM.dll to register my com object for my application. This works fine under my admin account. if a switch the user to a non admin, the program fails. It seems that the COM object is not loaded for the non admin user. Any ideas on why this might be or a possible solution? COM objects need to be registered by an admin user, usually. (There are subtleties and exceptions that I won't get into here, because based on your description that's not what's going on.) However, once the COM object has been registered, all users should be able to use it provided that the object was

I'm currently working on an application where we receive private health information. One of the biggest concerns is with the SSN. Currently, we don't use the SSN for anything, but in the future we'd like to be able to use it to uniquely identify a patient across multiple facilities. The only way I can see to do that reliably is through the SSN. However, we (in addition to our customers) REALLY don't want to store the SSN. So naturally, I thought of just SHA hashing it since we're just using it for identification. The problem with that is that if an attacker knows the problem domain (an SSN),

I have a Python app that I'm working on that needs to access the hosts file to append a few lines. Everything worked on my test file, but when I told the program to actually modify my hosts file in /etc/hosts I get IOError 13. From what I understand, my app doesn't have root privileges. My question is, how can I circumnavigate this issue? Is there a way to prompt the user for their password? Would the process be any different if I was running the app on a Windows machine? Here's the code in question: f = open("/etc/hosts", "a") f.write("Hello Hosts File!") Also, I plan on using py2app and

I made an application as root user, it worked perfectly(in root user). When I try same application with a standard user it didn't work out. Then I get to know that I need root privileges to run the application. I Google for few day but didn't get it. I have read some questions and apple doc. which are- https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Security/Conceptual/authorization_concepts/01introduction/introduction.html How to set my application to always run as root OSX How to programmatically gain root privileges? How to running application under root privilege? but still I didn't

I need to check whether the user executing the script has administrative privileges on the machine. I have specified the user executing the script because the script could have been executed with a user other than the logged on using something similar to "Runas". @Javier: Both solutions work in a PC with an English version of Windows installed but not if the installed is in different language. This is because the Administrators group doesn't exist, the name is different for instance in Spanish. I need the solution to work in all configurations. You can use script if you want to see if the

I have 3 roles: superuser, poweruser and user. I have table "data" and functions data_select and data_insert. Now I would like to define, that only superuser can access table "data". Poweruser and user can not access table "data" directly, but only through the functions. User can run only function data_select, poweruser can run both data_select and data_insert. So then I can create users alice, bob, ... and inherits them privileges of user or poweuser. Is this actually achievable? I am fighting with this for the second day and not getting anywhere. Thank you for your time. Erwin Brandstetter