grant power users access to firewall controls

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I don't want my users installing apps but they should be able to turn on and
off the firewall. is there a way to give them this ability?
 
totoro wrote:
|| I don't want my users installing apps but they should be able to
|| turn on and off the firewall.

Why? Turning off the firewall is a security risk.
 
sometimes its required to troubleshoot netwrok services such as printing and
scanning images. we have a xerox large format scanner that the Firewall will
not accept as an exception. to use it the administrator has to turn off the
firewall. I would rather the user turned it on and off on demand, rather than
me deciding either I turn it off permanantly or the scanner resource (which
is unique and very useful) is no longer availalble permanently.
 
totoro said:
sometimes its required to troubleshoot netwrok services such as
printing and scanning images. we have a xerox large format scanner
that the Firewall will not accept as an exception. to use it the
administrator has to turn off the firewall. I would rather the user
turned it on and off on demand, rather than me deciding either I turn
it off permanantly or the scanner resource (which is unique and very
useful) is no longer availalble permanently.
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If you are talking about the Windows firewall, perhaps it's time to consider
an alternative?
 
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