PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

boyd — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:19:00 GMT

Nice thing.
Do you thing there is a change we could get the source of it?

privbar

Eric Jarvi — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:31:00 GMT

Another Step in the right direction

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

JackoPlacko — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:41:00 GMT

On Server 2003 Pl Std View / Toolbars / PrivBar is not present.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:24:00 GMT

Boyd - I think posting the source would be a good thing. I'll try to get it presentable and post it.

JackoPlacko - make sure that you have copied the DLL into a location in which all users have at least Read access. Make sure to regsvr32 the DLL in that location, and also import the .reg file in the zip file.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

JackoPlacko — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:32:00 GMT

Aaron.
All my steps (follow yours) are property executed - but View / Toolbars / PrivBar is not present.
Just I send for You message with more info about fragments registry.
Thx.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

G. Andrew Duthie — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:11:00 GMT

Aaron,

I'm in the same boat as Jacko...I've installed and registered the DLL in a location where the Users group has Read access, I've added the registry entries, and confirmed that the value was added to the correct key, and I've rebooted to ensure that the settings would be picked up. PrivBar is still not showing up in View > Toolbars. Any suggestions?

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:53:00 GMT

Jacko & Andrew -- I just built a fresh Server 2003, fully updated, added Office, SQL, RKs, tools, etc. Then regsvr32 privbar.dll and imported the additional reg key file. PrivBar was *not* in the View/Toolbars menu. I closed that Explorer window (the only Explorer window), opened a new Explorer window, and PrivBar *was* there. I enabled it and it works fine. I don't know what the problem might be. Make sure that you are an admin when you register/import.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:04:00 GMT

Jacko & Andrew - make sure that this setting is enabled: Tools / Internet Options / Advanced / Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart). If its checkbox is not checked, check it and close all instances of iexplore.exe.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

rick@cryptosmith.com — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:41:00 GMT

OK I've been doing security 'way too long, but this never ceases to astound me. The Most Dangerous Thing most users can do is run as Administrator, especially while surfing the Net, but I hardly ever hear advice-givers address this issue, especially in vulnerable home users!

I can generally talk my employer into giving me admin access to my desktop machine, but I never get a threat briefing on why I shouldn't use it as part of my routine login account.

I sould probably start a blog and rant there instead...

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

G. Andrew Duthie — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 01:30:00 GMT

Aaron,

"enable third-party browser extensions" did the trick for me. PrivBar is now working as expected, with one minor exception...I don't get the yellow background when the window is running with Administrator privileges. Still, this is a very useful tool, and I will most certainly be using and recommending this often.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 04:34:00 GMT

Andrew, I've already traded email with you about this, but I wanted to add to this thread that if you have a background bitmap defined for an account (per earlier posts), that it will override the background color for the toolbar.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Jenni Merrifield — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:49:00 GMT

Aaron:

I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to post these tips and tricks around how to run as LUA and still be able to get work done when applications require Admin privileges.

It just happens that I also work for MS, but as a User Experience (UX) Program Manager and I will be working on a number of areas around the user experience associated with application security, including the UX for LUA users. As a result I decided that I should run as LUA if for no other reason than to gain first hand knowledge of the current UX and find all those "pain points" for myself. I don't think I could have successfully gone forward without your list of tips and workarounds.

Thanks again!

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

David Candy — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:35:00 GMT

And every time you create a rooted Explorer window with the /root, command line option (a.k.a., Explore from here), it gets its own, brand-new process.

In experimenting I find All /root windows go into a third process not seperate processes most of the time.

EG
Start My Comp
Start any number of /root from Start Run
Max Process is 3

and + but

Start a /root from Start Run
Start a second
Max Process = 3
Now start My Comp (from QL)
Max Process = 3
Start a /root
Max Process = 4

This is screwy. The rules don't seem so simple.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

JackoPlacko — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:55:00 GMT

Aaron,
"Tools / Internet Options / Advanced / Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart)" is not enabled in "pure" Server 2003. After enable PrivBar work fine :).
Thanks for your help!

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PrivBar - An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Matt Dronen — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:01:13 GMT

Hi Aaron,

In a previous comment you mentioned you were going to try and post the code to PrivBar. Are you still planning on doing this? I'd sure like to use the code. Thanks.

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Geno — Tue, 24 May 2005 07:08:42 GMT

I think i have found 1 issue. If i open up explorer.exe and close before the privbar gets a chance to retrieve the token information, explorer.exe crashes.

Any thoughts

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Tue, 24 May 2005 07:59:19 GMT

Geno - that's interesting. So far I have not gotten it to repro. How reliable is your repro - rarely, sometimes, all the time? Does the crash data point to privbar.dll? How are you verifying that PrivBar has not retrieved token info at the time you close Explorer? Do you happen to know whether it is a new instance of Explorer.exe or another window owned by an existing instance of Explorer.exe?

Thanks again.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Johan — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:07:17 GMT

Hi

Greate utility, is it possible to dev. more?

It would be really nice if i could be admin/poweruser on my pc and startup iexporer in "leaste privilege" (other utils makes it possible, yes) - and then change between user/administrator through this toolbar.

/Johan

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Lawrence Steeger — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:56:05 GMT

Just attended (via Webcast) your Tips and Tricks to Running Windows with Least Privilege presentation.

Very good presentation!

Could we get the source code for PrivBar?

Spread the LUA joy

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Get your friends and family, all those folks that come to you for computer help once their machines have...

Why are the install instructions not in the zip file?

Keith — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:33:17 GMT

Why is it that people that offer things for download put instructions on the download page but never in the download itself. This is fine for people that download it once and install it immediately but for those of us that tend to accumulate this stuff we end up with zip files containing programs and nothing in the zip file to remind us what it is and how to make it work.

Argh

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:31:38 GMT

Keith - re the instructions not being in the zip - valid complaint. Issue from this end is that this is a spare time effort as it is. I'll try to do that in the future, though. (What I usually do is to download the zip into its own folder, then save the relevant web pages as .mht files in the same folder, and sometimes a shortcut file pointing back to the URL.)

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Alex Zimin — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:08:15 GMT

>If anyone knows of a reliable way to automate this, please let me know!

There is a relatively simple way to automate this , I can send you a script to do this if you want.
In short - you can propagate ITBarLayout entries from the current user to all the local accounts (including "Default User"), and it will do the trick.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Alex Mondale — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:43:00 GMT

How do you uninstall? Also, there is on my XPSP2 IE installation a problem: the UUID or App ID is "crossed up" with that of my Google Toolbar. When I (un) select View, Privbar, my Google Toolbar goes away, and vice-versa. What's up with that?

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Roger Safian — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 03:55:37 GMT

Regarding the Google Toolbar. I just installed PrivBar, and I also had the Google toolbar. What I needed to do was uunlock the toolbar, and drag privbar from the right hand portion of the screen where it was hidden. I then relocked the toolbar, and everything was OK.

BTW - Thanks for the tool Aaron.

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John Watson — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:08:21 GMT

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Anders — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:49:47 GMT

Sourcecode?

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

slang — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:32:11 GMT

Dare I ask, and I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, does anyone know of a firefox version?

I'll definately be using this for IE etc., but would also like something similar for firefox.

Any suggestions?

Cheers -

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:19:40 GMT

Source code finally published! http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/10/13/480901.aspx

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Colin — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:50:32 GMT

Just installed on win2000 SP4 with no problems. I do have VS6 and VS.net 2003 installed, which might have resolved the dependency issue mentioned in the original post.

Slick little tool. Thanks.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Patrick — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:07:51 GMT

Looks nice,

But can't get it to work.
Getting a LoadLibrary Failed error: The specified module could not be found.

Any ideas to solve this?

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:31:14 GMT

I've updated this - the original version had dependencies on DLLs that ship with Windows XP. The version I posted on Oct. 13 had dependencies on updated DLLs that aren't installed by default. The version I've just uploaded statically links all that stuff, so it should work on your machine! (Sorry for any inconvenience.)

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

sak — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:23:37 GMT

Thanks for this great toolbar

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Daniel Cazzulino — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:22:18 GMT

I believe there's some issue with XP Pro x64.
I could succesfully add the toolbar to IE, but it never appears in the list of toolbars for Explorer.

let me know if there is a fix @ kzu.net at gmail dot com.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

John — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:05:13 GMT

It says I'm an administrator with a red circle but I know I'm not. This is a domain user account in the backup operators group and the server operators group but I know I'm not an admin because I can't change settings it let's me know and I can't install/uninstall programs. Can you tell me why I'm listed this way?

Groups:
DOMAIN\Domain Users | mandatory enabled default
Everyone | mandatory enabled default
BUILTIN\Users | mandatory enabled default
BUILTIN\Administrators | mandatory enabled default can_be_owner
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE | mandatory enabled default
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users | mandatory enabled default
Logon SID (S-1-5-5-0-20167967) | mandatory enabled default logon_SID
LOCAL | mandatory enabled default
DOMAIN\Info Techs | mandatory enabled default
DOMAIN\Ras | mandatory enabled default
DOMAIN\Investors | mandatory enabled default

Privileges:
SeChangeNotifyPrivilege | enabled, enabled by default
SeShutdownPrivilege | disabled
SeUndockPrivilege | enabled
SeSecurityPrivilege | disabled
SeBackupPrivilege | disabled
SeRestorePrivilege | disabled
SeSystemtimePrivilege | disabled
SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege | disabled
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege | disabled
SeDebugPrivilege | disabled
SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege | disabled
SeSystemProfilePrivilege | disabled
SeProfileSingleProcessPrivilege | disabled
SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege | disabled
SeLoadDriverPrivilege | enabled
SeCreatePagefilePrivilege | disabled
SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege | disabled
SeManageVolumePrivilege | disabled
SeImpersonatePrivilege | enabled, enabled by default
SeCreateGlobalPrivilege | enabled, enabled by default

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:22:16 GMT

John - it sure looks like you're an admin. It says you're in the BUILTIN\Administrators group, and you have a ton of privileges normally granted only to admins.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Brooster — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:11:25 GMT

Hey Aaron, been using it on Windows XP with no issue tried it now on WindowsXP x64 and it doesn't want to work.

Will you have an updated DLL that will be x64 compatable.

If I put the dll is SysWOW64 I get "LoadLibrary("privbar.dll") failed - The specified module could not be found." when I try to register the dll.

If I put it in System32 (the native x64 dir) I get the error when trying to register of the following: "privbar.dll" is not an executable file and no registration helper is registered for this file type.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Aaron Margosis — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 05:15:54 GMT

Brooster - Sorry, I haven't built an x64 version yet. I'll try to line something up...
Thanks.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Ajay — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:01:36 GMT

Another excellent tool! Here is problem I came across. I set the "Launch folder windows in a separate process" checkbox in explorer. Launching Explorer using RunAs works fine. I start explorer in my LUA and it shows that I am a User. Then I run the MakeMeAdmin script from you previous post and launch "explorer" from there and it is still running as a User! What? So I close down all my explorer windows and launch it from the MakeMeAdmin windows first. OK - it is Admin. Now I launch from the desktop and that is Admin too! After some fiddling around a figured out that using "explorer /root,c:\" option inside the MakeMeAdmin command window is VERY IMPORTANT. I know you mentioned it in your MakeMeAdmin post (which I went back to re-read) but I don't think it was emphasized enough how important it is. Also the complete syntax of the /root option wasn't provided and when I tried just "explorer /root" nothing happened so I stopped using it (not bothering to follow the link you gave until today). Anyway, thanks to the PrivBat I saw that I was probaly running explorer windows in security contexts other than what I thought.

x64

derf — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:16:16 GMT

Any word on a 64bit version?

Similar tool for all Windows?

David — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:23:12 GMT

Is anyone aware of anything similar for "all" genric windows -- i.e., displaying the logged in user in the title bar? I've seen a shareware app that adds a clock to the title bar near the close/minimize butttons systemwide -- so I guess it's not all that impossible to do.

Anyone with leads on this -- i'd love to hear from you at david (at) dcbarrycom (add the dot!)

David, this could be done, but it would involve injecting a hook into all processes on the desktop. This can have performance and stability impact, which is why I shied away from ever doing it myself. See the SetWindowsHookEx API and related documentation. -- Aaron

IE7 Compatability?

Adam — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:51:59 GMT

Has anyone tried his on IE7? Is it compatible?

I've used it with IE7 on versions of Windows Vista through Beta 2, and it seems to work fine.

-- Aaron

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command line access to current priv level

Jonathan Hartley — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:45:54 GMT

Thanks for sharing this great tool and the thoughts that lead to it. It's been very useful for me indeed.

I'm a command-line freak, often using Cygwin. It strikes me that it would be dead handy to have an executable that returned the current priv level on stdout and/or as an exit value.

This would allow other tools in any scripting environment (DOS, Cygwin, Python, etc) to easily determine their own current priv level. This could then be used in login or startup scripts to change the window title, or the background color, etc.

This would be the scripting world's equivalent of PrivBar.

Has anyone else done this? Is there an easier way than my current envisaged plan: compile my own command-line executable using the guts of PrivBar?

Are the guts of PrivBar available for public consumption? If you posted the source, no matter what state it's in, it would also allow other people to produce 64 bit versions, etc.

Thanks!

Jonathan Hartley
user tartley at the domain tartley.com

Command line tools you can use:

IFMEMBER - in the Windows Resource Kit
WHOAMI - in the Windows XP Support Tools. (Installed by default on Windows Vista.)

PrivBar source already posted: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/10/13/480901.aspx

-- Aaron

use with firefox

Jonathan Hartley — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:48:44 GMT

slang: Creating a firefox plugin to do this seems misguided. Surely the whole point of PrivBar and MakeMeAdmin is to avoid having to browse the web, and other user activities, with elevated privs. Surely the use of elevated priviledges should be restricted to system-admin type tasks, for which Explorer, and in some cases IExplorer, are required. Firefox is not.

Am I missing something?

re: command line access to current priv level

jonathan hartley — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:46:12 GMT

I see you already posted the source. Thanks!

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re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Irving Washington — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:31:17 GMT

I just upgraded to new PC and cannot get PrivBar to work under DropMyRights instances of IE6.0.

All install steps go fine except that result is diff from other 4 PCs that use this combo:

1) when in Admin mode - nothing can get background behind the red dot to go to YELLOW (and yes I have checked the tool bar background in registry)

2) in User mode - the View/Toolbars allows me to "see" the PrivBar option and try to check it - but action fails - no checkmark, no PrivBar.

Anyone out there with a Tip or 2 to go looking for root cause - would be appreciated.

Irving:

1) The yellow background appears with Windows classic style only. (I can't recall the exact settings that are involved, but there's something about themes that overrides the older legacy background bitmap/color stuff.)

2) I think I've seen that -- probably an incompatibility or corruption issue involving another toolbar. There's a way to reset the toolbar stuff by whacking some registry keys - are you comfortable doing that? Turning the others on/off might reset it as well. (I'll have to research -- I don't have an IE6 system handy at the moment. IE7 is really nice.:-)

HTH

-- Aaron

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re: PrivBar -- Maxthon brower

da987 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:53:13 GMT

The toolbar is available in Maxthon (1.6), on XP SP2, IE6 SP1 + latest, but only the top 30% of,say, the circle and text are visible.

In IE, these are fully visible.

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Virus found!!! False-Positive?

Dennis — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:01:20 GMT

Hi Aaron!

Try virustotal.com - two scanners reporting malware. Are these false positive???

Virus found!!! False-Positive? [UPDATE]

Dennis — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:48:14 GMT

Hi Aaron!

I've informed F-Secure, this my scanner. The answer from F-Secure:

"The file you submitted is indeed clean. A database update will be released to resolve this issue."

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Philip Lo — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:45:43 GMT

AVG Free Edition 7.5.524 with virus database 269.23.8/1413 dated 5/3/2008 is reporting that there is a trojan horse Click.NDK in PrivBar.dll

[Aaron Margosis] I can promise you that I did not write malware, and the zip file does not appear to have been tampered with since I uploaded it. These reports appear to be false positives. [Update] On the virustotal site, F-Secure is now reporting the file as clean. For AVG, please report the file to AVG for more scanning, per their instructions: http://www.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1203 . Thanks.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

philip lo — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:13:58 GMT

I have sent privbar.dll to AVG for their analysis and I hope they will correct their database soon.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

philip lo — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:15:15 GMT

Looks like AVG has corrected their database in the latest defintion files.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

mr.bryce — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:01:43 GMT

any way to have privbar behave like the language bar in the taskbar ?

privbar displays credentials only for internet explorer and explorer instances.

the language bar is able to display the language setting for any window on the desktop, simply by changing focus.

i know that the process ctfmon.exe is related to the language bar, is that what gives it its flexibility?

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Justin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:16:49 GMT

Avast Home 4.8 is highlighting PrivBar.dll as Adware.

Is it adware or is a false positive?

[Aaron Margosis] Absolutely a false positive. Another anti-virus package incorrectly flagged it a few months ago (see a few comments up from this one). They got it corrected within a couple of days.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Gregg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:24:02 GMT

You going to put a new download link so we can download privbar again? :)

Download broken

Eric — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:11 GMT

As Gregg commented, the download link appears to be broken :(

[Aaron Margosis] My apologies -- I switched internet service providers a little while ago, and forgot about the images and downloads that I had on their servers until it was too late.

To make it up to you all, I'm going to revamp them and post both x86 and x64 versions of PrivBar. (Soon.)

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Al — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:54:22 GMT

Yes It's works with Internet Expolorer 8 beta 2

1.Unzip PrivBar to C:

2.Run the command prompt as Administratorin for installation process

3.A If you have version 64 Bit like me type or add these path in the windows command prompt:

regsvr32 C:\PrivBarX64.dll

and

regsvr32 C:\PrivBar.dll

3.B.If you version is 32Bit only this:

regsvr32 C:\PrivBar.dll

4. Go to Internet options>

Advanced>

Browsing>

uncheck the option:

Enable third-party browser extensions

Apply and OK

5.Unlocked Toolbars in Menu Bar> View> Toolbars

6.Close de Internet Explorer Browser if is Open

7.Go to Internet options>

Advanced>

Browsing>

CHECK the option:

Enable third-party browser extensions

Apply and OK

8.Go to Menu Toolbars and check PrivBar toolbar

9.Lock your Toolbars again.

Done.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Jakob — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:37:38 GMT

This is interesting info, but it looks like almost four months have passed since the download was going to be posted again 'soon'. That's a shame.

[Aaron Margosis] Umm, yeah, it was about 3.5 months ago that I posted new versions, which include support for x64 also. See the "update" link at the top of this post.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Two Lenses — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:02:03 GMT

I seem to be having a problem installing PrivBar. The instructions say:

1. Download the zip file

4. Extract PrivBarReg.reg from the zip file and import it into the registry.

I have no problem with instructions 1-3, but the zip file I downloaded doesn't contain a "PrivBarReg.reg" file, it only contains two files: "PrivBar.dll" and "PrivBarX64.dll". Googling for the missing filename has not helped.

Without that file, PrivBar "sort of" works: if I kick off Windows Explorer with MakeMeAdmin, the PrivBar has a yellow background, whereas if I kick it off straight from my Limited account it has the default Windows Explorer background. And it shows the account name correctly in both cases.

But in both cases, the account name is followed by a _red_ circle followed by the word "Administrators". (I would expect to see the green circle followed by "Users" in the second case.)

Can anybody help?

-Two.

[Aaron Margosis] There is no longer an extra .reg file. Just regsvr32 the PrivBar.dll; regsvr32 the PrivBarX64.dll also if you're running x64 version of Windows.

The yellow background may or may not appear, depending (I think) on theme settings. If the red circle appears, that instance of Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer is running with full admin rights.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Shawn — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:14:06 GMT

I installed PrivBar and have no problems with it being viewable, however, I did have a problem with the information provided. I am opening an instance of explorer with a shortcut, 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\runas.exe /netonly /user:domain\user "%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe path"'. I use runas for admin access to certain folders so I don't have to log out and back in as switch users is disabled at my company. I show my current non-admin domain\user regardless of whether I use runas or not and the Priveleges are shown as Administrator as well. I have admin rights on my pc (only allowed because of my level of ability), but not on the server where the folder is stored. Even when PrivBar shows the lesser priveleged user info, I do have the correct priveleges via runas. I thought the purpose of PrivBar was to show what level of privileges were being used for the window.

[Aaron Margosis] Why are you using /netonly? That has you continuing to use the same security context locally, but using the alternate credentials when you authenticate to a remote machine via SSPI (essentially, using Windows authentication; e.g., to a SQL or IIS server). PrivBar is looking only at the local token that is running the process, not at any alternate credentials. PrivBar (and Explorer) have no way of knowing whether the remote server considers you an admin.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Two Lenses — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:53:30 GMT

This is my response to the answer you (Aaron) posted to my question two posts up. It probably only makes sense if you read my November 29 post and Aaron's reply first.

I'm confused, because I also see the red circle when I am logged into my Limited account. Let me explain....

When I log in to my admin account and open Windows Explorer, it shows the red circle alongside the word "Administrators" as I expect, and shows the account name as "admin". (I can confirm that my admin account has Administrator rights because "Control Panel" > "User Accounts" shows two accounts: "admin" as "Computer administrator" and "lweston" as "Limited account".)

But if I switch to my Limited account, Windows Explorer still shows the red circle and the word "Administrators" even though now it correctly shows the account name as "lweston". And that account behaves like a Limited account as expected, because if I open Control Panel from this account and then open "User Accounts", the resulting window only shows my "lweston" account. That's the behaviour I would expect from a Limited account: it only shows the current account.

So why do I still see the red circle in Windows Explorer when I'm logged in to my Limited User account. (Incidentally, I have ticked the option "Tools" > "Folder Options..." > "View" > "Files and Folders" > "Launch folder windows in a separate process" in Windows Explorer, so there shouldn't be any chance of my Limited user's explorer task seeing the memory of the one that admin is using.)

[Aaron Margosis] Click on the circle icon in the toolbar and it will list the groups and privileges it sees. What does it report?

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Qtax — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:38:43 GMT

The download link seems to be dead now (404).

Any mirrors available?

[Aaron Margosis] Replaced with this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2008/08/15/the-return-of-privbar-x86-and-x64.aspx

where can I acquire PrivBar??

Scott — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:50:16 GMT

Aaron, thanks for this, but you need to fix all your posts on RunAs, MakeMeAdmin, PrivBar, etc., which point to Speakeasy.net. All of them are returning 404 errors.

re: PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level

Scott — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:51:38 GMT

Oooh. I gotta read before I write. Sorry, my previous question was already answered.