Manually enhance .Net program's permissions?

[thetao]

Hello,

I am not a .Net programmer, and hopefully I've picked the right forum. My company uses a .Net-based utility program that when not run with administrator permissions, disables certain functions, crashes, and displays other odd behaviors. All our users run in a locked-down environment for security, and we don't really want to enhance their permissions. We have complained to the vendor, but for the foreseeable future, there will be no official workaround or fix. I can think of other ways to tackle this problem, but knowing something about .Net's security.config file, was curious if there is a way to manually add an exception for this program? I did spend some time experimenting with the .Net Configuration 1.1 program, but couldn't seem to find an executable that it recognizes as a "managed assembly". It does have its own .manifest file. Unfortunately, the only example I have to work with is a web-based .Net program that uses UrlMembershipCondition to allow access to a URL. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Todd

[Krokonoster]

Hi and welcome to VBF.

Do you have the application's source code? (In that case you perhaps can debug the code to try find the source of the error. I'm sure this way someone should be able to help you).