Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic

Granting Account Permissions

Before you can run the preceding code modules, you need to compile them into either a DLL or a server module that will be running independently from the user interface. This DLL or executable will need to be running on the server under a controlled user account that can be granted permission to execute as part of the operating system. The account needs to have permission configured to operate as part of the operating system before the code module can grant the privilege to itself.

Granting Permissions on NT 4.0

Granting a user account permission to act as part of the operating system is a fairly simple task. First, you need to be logged in either to the administrator account or to another account that is a member ...