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.
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
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