Windows Vista Tips

Windows Vista Tips > Newsgroups > Windows Vista General Discussion > IEUser restart through Restart Manager works but...

Reply
Thread Tools Display Modes

IEUser restart through Restart Manager works but...

 
 
jgomezb@gmail.com
Guest
Posts: n/a

 
      03-14-2007
Hi all,
I register an elevation policy and restart IEUser for it to take
effect. If this is done from an administrator account, all works fine:
the policy is registered, the IEUser is shutdown (RmShutdown) and
restarted (RmRestart), so the policy is considered. However, if this
is done from a standard account, it only works from a medium integrity
level but not from a high integrity level.

Maybe this happens because the user of the high integrity level
process restarting the IEUser is an administrator (after the prompt
from consent.exe) which differs from the standard user running the
original IEUser. My experimentgs show that in this case RmShutdown
succeds, but not RmRestart.

The code I am using is this:

// Restart IEUser.
DWORD RestartIEUser()
{ DWORD dwVal=ERROR_SUCCESS;
DWORD dwSessionHandle=(DWORD)-1;
WCHAR wszSessionKey[CCH_RM_SESSION_KEY+1];
UINT nProcInfo=100;
UINT nProcInfoNeeded;
DWORD lpdwRebootReason=0;

LPWSTR rgsFiles[] = { L"c:\\program files\\internet explorer\
\ieuser.exe", };

// Allocate structures.
RM_PROCESS_INFO *rgProcs=new RM_PROCESS_INFO[nProcInfo];
if (rgProcs==0)
{ dwVal=ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY;
goto RM_END;
}

// Starting Session.
dwVal=RmStartSession(&dwSessionHandle, 0, wszSessionKey);
if (dwVal!=ERROR_SUCCESS) goto RM_END;

// Register items.
dwVal=RmRegisterResources(dwSessionHandle, 1, (LPCWSTR*) rgsFiles, 0,
NULL, 0, NULL);
if (dwVal!=ERROR_SUCCESS) goto RM_END;

// Getting affected apps.
dwVal=RmGetList(dwSessionHandle, &nProcInfoNeeded, &nProcInfo,
rgProcs, &lpdwRebootReason);
if (dwVal!=ERROR_SUCCESS) goto RM_END;

// Shutdown ieuser process.
dwVal=RmShutdown(dwSessionHandle, 0, NULL);
if (dwVal!=ERROR_SUCCESS) goto RM_END;

// Restart ieuser.
dwVal=RmRestart(dwSessionHandle, NULL, NULL);
if (dwVal!=ERROR_SUCCESS) goto RM_END;

RM_END:

// Release structures.
if (rgProcs!=NULL) delete[] rgProcs;

// Clean up session.
if (dwSessionHandle!=-1)
RmEndSession(dwSessionHandle);

return dwVal;
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{ RestartIEUser();
return 0;
}

I have tried creating a thread that impersonates the user and does the
call to RestartIEUser(), but it doesn't works. Anyone has any clue? Do
I need to create a process as the user to perform only this operation?

Thanks in advance,

Kodit

 
Reply With Quote
 
 
 
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Restart polyemma Windows Vista Performance 1 12-20-2007 12:57 PM
Is a restart a clean restart Extracampine Windows Vista General Discussion 1 05-31-2007 03:58 PM
Boot manager on every restart woodman1020 Windows Vista Performance 5 04-28-2007 03:34 AM
Hibernation only works once per restart cycle intclass Windows Vista Hardware 0 03-21-2007 09:54 AM
Clicking on IE 7 Address Bar selector caused IE to lock up and need a task manager restart. Keith Caravelli Windows Vista General Discussion 1 03-02-2007 11:58 PM



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59