administrative privileges

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administrative
adjective
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/ədˈmɪn.ɪ.strə.tɪv/us
/ədˈmɪn.ə.strə.t̬ɪv/
relating to the arrangements and work that is needed to control the operation of a plan ...
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privilege
noun
uk
/ˈprɪv.əl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈprɪv.əl.ɪdʒ/
an advantage that only one person or group of people has, usually because of their position or because they ...
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In this way, only applications trusted by the user may receive administrative privileges, and malware should be kept from compromising the operating system.
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Users with administrative privileges can assign drive letters manually to overcome this problem.
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Spoon works through a small browser plugin with no administrative privileges or drivers required.
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The families were credited important land and administrative privileges.
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Applications are streamed to user desktops and run on clean desktops without administrative privileges.
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Administrative shares can not be accessed by users without administrative privileges.
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When launching an "elevated" process, the user is made aware that his/her administrative privileges are being asserted through a prompt requiring his/her consent.
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You don't need administrative privileges to use the tool.
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Some administrative privileges (e.g. taking ownership of or restoring arbitrary files) are so powerful that if used with malicious intent they could allow the entire system to be compromised.
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Windows defines a number of administrative privileges which can be assigned individually to users and/or groups.
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