Question....

[Monk]

Is it possible to run tcadmin as a non admin user? I'm concerned about possible security breaches.

 

I understand that ports below 1024 are only used for admin, so FTP will have to run on a different port.

[LFA]

It needs admin permissions to be able to install and uninstall services. I don't know if you can give a guest permissions to do this. You would have to test.

[Monk]

What about running the process as a user? I see a service can do that. I find things like that useful.

 

It would be a security enhancement to prevent users from taking over the machine due to whatever, like an exploit.

[LFA]

You can do this by creating a file in the path TCAdmin Control Panel\Monitor\Services\User.config with this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<configuration>
 <appSettings>
   <add key="Service.WindowsAccount" value="youruser" />
   <add key="Service.Password" value="yourpassword" />
 </appSettings>
</configuration>

 

Replace youruser and yourpassword with the user information. New services will be configured to run as a new user. For existing services you need to go to the service settings and click on Save to update them. When you use this interact with desktop does not work.

[Monk]

I figured this out before you replied, thanks though.