Repair Patches As Specific User or Run as Administrator

Purpose

This document outlines how to run a Patch Repair task as a specific user. This can be used as a way to apply patches similar to using 'Run as Administrator'.

Affected Platform

LDMS Core: 9.6 SP1

Steps

Running Patch Repairs tasks as a specific user can only be delegated on the Distribution and Patch setting, not per vulnerability/patch. Because of this, it is recommended to setup a new Agent Setting | Distribution and Patch for use on patches that require the 'run as' option.

• Click Tools | Configuration | Agent Settings

• Click Agent Settings | My Agent Settings or Public Agent Settings | Distribution and Patch | Create New Setting

• Within the Distribution and Patch setting select MSI Information
• Under the Run as Informationsection fill out the credentials of the user to 'run as'
  • Using an admin account will have the effect as 'run as administrator'
    

• Click Save to commit

Note: For the purposes of this document, the MSI Information | Run as Information is the only relevant option that needs configured. The other options within this setting may be configured specific to your environmental needs.

• With the new setting created, schedule the repair of the patch.
• In the Scheduled Task window select Agent Settings
• Under Distribution and Patch select the new Distribution and Patch - Run as Admin setting
  • The name of the setting will vary depending on what you called it

• Save the task and run

When this task runs on the client machine, it will run the repair job as the specific user with the rights defined for that user.