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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
Subject: how to drop administrator privileges?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:33:55 +0200
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I've recently had a test fail because I started it with administrator
privileges (via the Administrator group).  The test tried to write to a
file that it set read-only before and of course as an administrator it
was still able to write to it.  So the test fail wasn't really that
important, but I can't seem to find a way to drop administrator
privileges once I have a shell opened with "run as administrator".  Is
there a command that will shed those rights for a sub-shell?


Regards,
Achim.
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