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Bug 170572

Summary:	(Vista) Agent Controller (both IAC and AC) require admin privilege to launch
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Karla Callaghan <karla.callaghan>
Component:	TPTP	Assignee:	Samson Wai <samwai>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1	CC:	paulslau
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	closed471
Bug Depends on:	170499
Bug Blocks:	167137

Description Karla Callaghan

2007-01-15 19:48:08 EST

The agent controllers (IAC, AC) require privileges beyond those granted to the normal user of the Windows Vista operating system.  These need to be eliminated or reduced somehow to make the TPTP tools accessible to more users of Vista.  The issues are specified in more detail in bug 167842.

Comment 1 Samson Wai

2007-01-31 12:08:38 EST

Retarget to future due to resource limitation.

Comment 2 Samson Wai

2007-01-31 14:59:25 EST

Back to 4.4 for consideration.

Comment 3 Samson Wai

2007-01-31 16:09:45 EST

Set priority to P1 for 4.4 plan closure.

Comment 4 Samson Wai

2007-02-09 11:33:01 EST

*** Bug 168932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Samson Wai

2007-02-14 11:03:40 EST

According to MSDN, only Administrator can create Global objects under Vista:

"Another potential issue to look out for is that standard users are prevented from creating objects in the Global namespace. For example, a standard user could not create a Named Pipe or Shared Memory within the namespace. Global is intended only for use by services or applications maintaining cross-session state. The Local namespace should be used instead. This is writable by a standard user."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01/UAC/default.aspx

If we create the shared memory in the Local namespace, agents running under a different user session will not be able to communicate with the Agent Controller. An example is when the AC is running as a service (session 0) while the agent is started manually by the user (session 1).

Comment 6 Samson Wai

2007-02-15 11:45:31 EST

Spent 4 hours on investigation.

Comment 7 Samson Wai

2007-02-16 15:15:22 EST

Not containable in 4.4.

Comment 8 Navid Mehregani

2007-04-02 18:26:39 EDT

This looks like a duplicate of 179871.  I'll mark THIS bug as a duplicate, since there has been more activity in 179871.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179871 ***

Comment 9 Valentina Popescu

2007-05-28 23:59:25 EDT

Updated target to match the iteration when this defect was processed

Comment 10 Kathy Chan

2010-11-18 18:53:17 EST

As of TPTP 4.6.0, TPTP is in maintenance mode and focusing on improving quality by resolving relevant enhancements/defects and increasing test coverage through test creation, automation, Build Verification Tests (BVTs), and expanded run-time execution. As part of the TPTP Bugzilla housecleaning process (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Bugzilla_Housecleaning_Processes), this enhancement/defect is verified/closed by the Project Lead since this enhancement/defect has been resolved and unverified for more than 1 year and considered to be fixed. If this enhancement/defect is still unresolved and reproducible in the latest TPTP release (http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/home/downloads/), please re-open.