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How can I allow a limited user account to enable/disable network connections?

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Brazen

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the title pretty much says it. This is particularly for wireless. Often times i don't want my wireless to connect, so I would like to disable it but I have to log in as an admin to do it.
 
Originally posted by: Brazen
the title pretty much says it. This is particularly for wireless. Often times i don't want my wireless to connect, so I would like to disable it but I have to log in as an admin to do it.
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Perhaps a dumb question, but is this for a laptop? Most have a physical button/switch to do this, would that work in your case?
 
You might be able to write 2 netsh scripts to enable/disable the interface and then use RunAs with them.
 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Originally posted by: Brazen
the title pretty much says it. This is particularly for wireless. Often times i don't want my wireless to connect, so I would like to disable it but I have to log in as an admin to do it.
Click to expand...

Perhaps a dumb question, but is this for a laptop? Most have a physical button/switch to do this, would that work in your case?
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Yes, it's for multiple laptops actually. Using RunAs won't work, because once I get this working for myself, I'm going to set it for all the laptops in our orginization (for users that don't have admin privileges)

Yes the laptops do have a keyboard button to disable the wireless. The problem with that though is that it also disables the bluetooth radio. I also want to be able to disable the wired. I know for myself, depending on what I'm working on, I might have my laptop docked but want to use a wireless antennae.

I would bet that this can be done by giving permissions to certain registry keys, but looking around with Google, I can't find out anything.
 
It'll be more than registry entries because the user will most likely have to change the interface state which most likely won't work without admin rights.
 
And I don't think you can do this in vista, as UAC requires an ADMIN password...

Boy, windows needs a SUDO equivilant, it can be very nice. I was hoping UAC would bridge that, but they didn't.
 
Originally posted by: Brazen
Originally posted by: bsobel
Originally posted by: Brazen
the title pretty much says it. This is particularly for wireless. Often times i don't want my wireless to connect, so I would like to disable it but I have to log in as an admin to do it.
Click to expand...

Perhaps a dumb question, but is this for a laptop? Most have a physical button/switch to do this, would that work in your case?
Click to expand...

Yes, it's for multiple laptops actually. Using RunAs won't work, because once I get this working for myself, I'm going to set it for all the laptops in our orginization (for users that don't have admin privileges)

Yes the laptops do have a keyboard button to disable the wireless. The problem with that though is that it also disables the bluetooth radio. I also want to be able to disable the wired. I know for myself, depending on what I'm working on, I might have my laptop docked but want to use a wireless antennae.

I would bet that this can be done by giving permissions to certain registry keys, but looking around with Google, I can't find out anything.
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Did you check group policies?

 
The simplest answer is often the right one, eh? I checked Group Policy and there is a policy for it. Thanks bsobel.
 
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