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Make Me Admin is a simple, open-source application for Windows that allows standard user accounts to be elevated to administrator-level, on a temporary basis.
https://makemeadmin.com/
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Strange issue with GPO configured #106

Open buzzzo opened 1 year ago

buzzzo commented 1 year ago

Hi

I'm facing a strange issue: makemeadmin button "grant administrator" is greyed out when user's pc is not connected to the lan where domain controller is located .

As son as I connect it on the "active directory" lan the button is turned on.

Is it a known issue ?

Thx in advance

pseymour commented 1 year ago

How is access being granted to use it? Are you using a group name, a SID, what?

buzzzo commented 1 year ago

By group name

pseymour commented 1 year ago

So that makes sense. Windows or Make Me Admin or anything else would not be able to resolve the name of a user's groups without a connection to AD.

If you're going to use a name, the group needs to be either local (so its name can be resolved always) or the device needs an AD connection.

If the device will be disconnected sometimes, use the group's SID, which will always be available.

buzzzo commented 1 year ago

Thx

scottcopus commented 1 year ago

Thanks Patrick. This is good to know. I wondered about this too. And probably a good idea to document… such as at https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin/wiki/Registry-Settings ?

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 3:20 AM Patrick S. Seymour @.***> wrote:

So that makes sense. Windows or Make Me Admin or anything else would not be able to resolve the name of a user's groups without a connection to AD.

If you're going to use a name, the group needs to be either local (so its name can be resolved always) or the device needs an AD connection.

If the device will be disconnected sometimes, use the group's SID, which will always be available.

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