Starting miktex console as administrator is not detected

[ghost]

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[ghost]

Hi,
I like to start certain programs that need it, directly in administrator mode. When I do this for the miktex console it still needs to be restarted as administrator to activate the options. Apparently the console does not check if it has administrator priviliges.
Best regards,
Paul

[edocevoli]

Thank you for the repost. This has been fixed now.

[ghost]

I already noticed that. Thanks a lot!
Paul

[edocevoli]

Unfortunately, this change seems to have a bad side-effect: if you turn off UAC, then MiKTeX Console is always started elevated. You then don't have the option to run it in user mode, if the auto-admin enhancement is in effect. I will undo this enhancement.

Please note that MiKTeX Console understands the --admin option. You can use it to start in admin mode.

[donovaly]

if you turn off UAC, then MiKTeX Console is always started elevated. You then don't have the option to run it in user mode, if the auto-admin enhancement is in effect.

What about this?: MPM is by default start with admin privileges and you see the welcome screen you see currently when starting with user privileges. But this time the screen offers you to restart in user mode. So admin users needing MPM to run only with user privileges could then so this.

[edocevoli]

Good idea. Surprisingly it's not easily possible to downgrade a user session. There is no "run as user" option in Windows.

[edocevoli]

Actually, command-line utilities like mpm and initexmf should not present an elevation prompt. This will be fixed (see milestone).

[donovaly]

Surprisingly it's not easily possible to downgrade a user session.

But at the moment MPM does. So why can't bne the default

• start MPM with UAC off
• if gthe admin wants to work in User mode, close MPM, turnung on UAC and restarting MPM

I also wonder who needs only user permissions when being logged in as admin. I mean the sense of an admin account is to administer and therefore the majority of programs start with admin permissions when executed by a user with admin permissions.