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#36601 - 2003-08-02 12:44 AM Re: Getting Dell Service Tag via login script
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I did some more testing; I booted the PC (Optiplex GX150, W2K), logged on, and logged off.

All the services are started, including Winmgmt. If I then log on (without reboot) with a test user who has no rights other than normal user rights, the model and service tag are NOT logged. If I make the test user local administrator, and log on again (again without reboot), the model and tag ARE logged. So it's a rights issue. Has anyone else had this problem too? Is there a specific right that should be set so that users can read this info?
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#36602 - 2003-08-01 02:28 PM Re: Getting Dell Service Tag via login script
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It's something else;

If I boot the computer, log on as normal user, the model and serial are NOT logged. If I log off, make the test user local admin (do so remote) and log on again, the serial and model ARE logged. If I then log off again, and remove the user's local admin rights, making him a normal user again, and log on, the serial and model ARE logged too.

Conclusion; as long as an admin has logged on, the following users don't need rights anymore to log the data successfully.

Smells like a service that can only be started with admin rights or something. However, I've tried starting all of the services while testing with a non-admin user, and there was no change.

It still requires an admin to log on first. Power user rights are also insufficient. I'll keep trying some other stuff, but I'm running out of options... ?

Any suggestions to try? I've already applied Full Control to everyone on NTFS and on all of HKLM, there was no difference..
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#36603 - 2003-08-01 02:30 PM Re: Getting Dell Service Tag via login script
Jeroen Offline
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It's something else;

If I boot the computer, log on as normal user, the model and serial are NOT logged. If I log off, make the test user local admin (do so remote) and log on again, the serial and model ARE logged. If I then log off again, and remove the user's local admin rights, making him a normal user again, and log on, the serial and model ARE logged too.

Conclusion; as long as an admin has logged on, the following users don't need rights anymore to log the data successfully.

Smells like a service that can only be started with admin rights or something. However, I've tried starting all of the services while testing with a non-admin user, and there was no change.

It still requires an admin to log on first. Power user rights are also insufficient. I'll keep trying some other stuff, but I'm running out of options... ?

Any suggestions to try? I've already applied Full Control to everyone on NTFS and on all of HKLM, there was no difference..
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#36604 - 2003-08-01 05:12 PM Re: Getting Dell Service Tag via login script
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I suspect that admin rights are needed to update some reg keys/values. Use RegMon to see what is being accessed and/or fails depending on rights.

I suspect HCCR...
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