Ok, I've got a problem. I've seen this problem mentioned before, but I have yet to construct a clear solution so I want to see if anyone has any new ideas. I have a script which does various things like mapping, time sync, registry modification, etc. I want to deploy this to all users in our network. The network itself is consisting of 9x's and NT 4's and 5's. The problem is clear, getting the NT 4's ad 5's to not spit out permission errors when making my modifications.

One solution I have heard is about using su to switch to local admin and run the command. Of course this leaves the famous clear-text passwords problem, and I wouldn't be able to do this anyway since some of the PCs have different local admin passwords.

Another solution is to setup the local NT scheduler to run a second script(the one with the actual modifications), and thus automatically get the second script system account privilege. This sounds interesting, and I would like to hear from some people who've tried this and any problems they might have had.

If anyone else has any other solutions, I would be thankful for your input.

Merry Christmas!!!!