Help with administrator rights

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Metallo

Hi,

A friend of mine has a small network, 6 PCs + a Linux server.

He asked me to "clean" his PCs from programs that are not related to the
activity of his company and also to find a way to avoid that the users
install programs on their own in the future.

I have not much experience into this, also because for me this is a
hobby, but I know that a way to achieve what he wants is to deny the
administrator rights on the users machines.

I'd like to have a confirmation this is the way to go and if indeed so,
can you give me instructions how to do this?

Another question:
Obviously. the PC of my friend must keep the admin rights, but how do I
put him in the position to allow a user to install a program by
temporarily allowing adming rights?

I know I am asking elementary questions, but I like to learn and have to
start somewhere.


Thank you!
 
The issue with having limited useraccounts is that unless on a network with
centralised administrative controls to do maintenance with, you will be
forever logging-off and logging-on. Pretty soon you'll either give-in and
make the user an Administrator, or else start screaming...

An alternative you might like to look at is a third-party utility called
TrustNoExe.

This doesn't involve any messing with user-rights; instead it determines
from which folders executables can be launched (bit like the linux path
variable, really, if you've ever met that..) Big advantage is that it can be
configured from Control Panel, with no repeated logging-on and off.

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/trust-no-exe/trust-no-exe.htm
 
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