Hi,

Windows has script hooks for user login/logout and system start/stop these are available through the gpedit tool. I have a perl script that I would like to run via these hooks. My windows admin is telling me some troubling things though.

My goals include:

• have the script live in non-User space, some directory owned by Admin that plain users can not otherwise reach
• have the script execute with the User's environment (profile)

On a Linux box I might put the script in /usr/local/sbin and let a sudo'ers file deal with the execution. Is there a Windows equiv to sudo?

My Windows admin is telling me that Windows will not let him run perl scripts as Administrator -- a la, right click the script name and select "Run as Administrator". He says the only way for this script to work is to have it in a place where ALL users can "see" it and execute it.

Since the script uses paths and passwords for things that regular users should not know I am very concerned.

Is there a way to protect the script while allowing it to be run by the masses?

Seven