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Sudoers (zip)

Sudoers allows a local administrator to give certain LUAs (Least-Privileged User Account) the ability to run some or all applications as system administrator. Unlike Runas or any other similar products, Sudoers does not execute applications in the context of another administrator account. The user LUA currently logged-on to the computer...

Tags: system administrator, application, sudoers

Software downloads 2006-05-31

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