Some means required to change flash drive label without having admin rights
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From: John S on 27 Jul 2010 23:42 Not sure if this is really a freeware question but hoping there might be a suitable solution. Operating systems - XP, Vista, Win7. Want students (elderly folk) to be shown how to change the label on their newly acquired flash drives so they can easily recognise them in dialogue boxes, but do this when logged in to a user account which doesn't have administrative rights. I'm wondering if there might be some way of doing this via an application which can be set up to operate in "run as" mode, with the password already entered into it (not visible to the user), and limited to just allowing the label on a disk to be changed. As I write this out, it sounds rather unlikely, but any expert out there with some idea as to how to give folks rights to do just this one admin type task from a user account? Cheers, John S
From: David H. Lipman on 28 Jul 2010 06:22 From: "John S" <gorblimey(a)invalid.invalid> | Not sure if this is really a freeware question but hoping there might be a | suitable solution. | Operating systems - XP, Vista, Win7. | Want students (elderly folk) to be shown how to change the label on their | newly acquired flash drives so they can easily recognise them in dialogue | boxes, but do this when logged in to a user account which doesn't have | administrative rights. | I'm wondering if there might be some way of doing this via an application | which can be set up to operate in "run as" mode, with the password already | entered into it (not visible to the user), and limited to just allowing the | label on a disk to be changed. | As I write this out, it sounds rather unlikely, but any expert out there | with some idea as to how to give folks rights to do just this one admin | type task from a user account? C:\> label /? Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk. LABEL [drive:][label] LABEL [/MP] [volume] [label] drive: Specifies the drive letter of a drive. label Specifies the label of the volume. /MP Specifies that the volume should be treated as a mount point or volume name. volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name. If volume name is specified, the /MP flag is unnecessary. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Gerard Bok on 28 Jul 2010 06:58 On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:42:03 +1200, John S <gorblimey(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >Want students (elderly folk) to be shown how to change the label on their >newly acquired flash drives so they can easily recognise them in dialogue >boxes, but do this when logged in to a user account which doesn't have >administrative rights. > >I'm wondering if there might be some way of doing this via an application That application is called 'the teacher's laptop'. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok
From: John S on 29 Jul 2010 03:38 On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:22:07 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote: > From: "John S" <gorblimey(a)invalid.invalid> > >| Not sure if this is really a freeware question but hoping there might be a >| suitable solution. > >| Operating systems - XP, Vista, Win7. > >| Want students (elderly folk) to be shown how to change the label on their >| newly acquired flash drives so they can easily recognise them in dialogue >| boxes, but do this when logged in to a user account which doesn't have >| administrative rights. > snip.. > C:\> label /? > Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk. > > LABEL [drive:][label] > LABEL [/MP] [volume] [label] > > drive: Specifies the drive letter of a drive. > label Specifies the label of the volume. > /MP Specifies that the volume should be treated as a > mount point or volume name. > volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), > mount point, or volume name. If volume name is specified, > the /MP flag is unnecessary. Thanks David, but this simply results in the expected "access denied" when run from within Windows XP in a command prompt window (when logged in as a user without admin rights). I imagine the same would apply to a batch file run from within the same account. Guess I'm wanting the implausible, and the solution will have to be "the teacher's laptop" after all (thanks Gerard Bok) Cheers, John S
From: za kAT on 29 Jul 2010 04:50
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:53 +1200, John S wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:22:07 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote: > >> From: "John S" <gorblimey(a)invalid.invalid> >> >>| Not sure if this is really a freeware question but hoping there might be a >>| suitable solution. >> >>| Operating systems - XP, Vista, Win7. >> >>| Want students (elderly folk) to be shown how to change the label on their >>| newly acquired flash drives so they can easily recognise them in dialogue >>| boxes, but do this when logged in to a user account which doesn't have >>| administrative rights. >> > snip.. > >> C:\> label /? >> Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk. >> >> LABEL [drive:][label] >> LABEL [/MP] [volume] [label] >> >> drive: Specifies the drive letter of a drive. >> label Specifies the label of the volume. >> /MP Specifies that the volume should be treated as a >> mount point or volume name. >> volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), >> mount point, or volume name. If volume name is specified, >> the /MP flag is unnecessary. > > Thanks David, but this simply results in the expected "access denied" when > run from within Windows XP in a command prompt window (when logged in as a > user without admin rights). I imagine the same would apply to a batch file > run from within the same account. > > Guess I'm wanting the implausible, and the solution will have to be "the > teacher's laptop" after all (thanks Gerard Bok) Hi, On Vista in 'Local Security Policy' mmc, there is a setting to allow interactive users to format ejectable media. Under Local policies > Security options. Sorry, I haven't time to check on XP, but if defined it may allow them to do what you want. You may also be able to apply via group policy. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416. Assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for denigration! |