ProcessClose and Multiple Users

[rpaz]

Hi,

I don't know if this can be considered a bug or not but i found that ProcessClose can only terminate a process that belongs to the same user that is running the Autoit Script even if its a member of the Administrators group.

In my case i have a Script that needs full administrator rights. The script have #RequireAdmin on the begining and this works fine if a non-admin user (userX) runs the script, Windows XP will ask for the User/Pass of one Administrator to execute the task. My Script needs to restart a process that belongs to userX and i have found that ProcessClose fail to kill the process because the owner is userX and not the Administrator.

The solution i have found is to use DMI because where its possible to set SeDebugPrivilege privilege.

Func _ProcessKillAll($strProcessKill)
   local $objWMIService, $objProcess, $colProcess, $strComputer
   $strComputer = ".";replace with remote computer
       
   $objWMIService = Objget("winmgmts:" _
   & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _ 
   & $strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 
   
  ; enable the SeDebugPrivilege privilege
   $objWMIService.Security_.privileges.addasstring("sedebugprivilege", true)
   
   $colProcess = $objWMIService.ExecQuery _
   ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = " & "'" & $strProcessKill & "'")
   For $objProcess in $colProcess
     $objProcess.Terminate(1)
   Next
EndFunc

[McGod]

I don't think this is a bug, I believe ProcessClose has only ever worked on the current user.

[crashdemons]

I don't think this is a bug, I believe ProcessClose has only ever worked on the current user.

It may not be a bug, but it sure is annoying if your logged in as admin and want to close processes not created in your session. :-P

[Valik]

Hmm. This needs implemented. If you have the rights to do it AutoIt should let you do it. This is more of a feature request.

[crashdemons]

The function given works wonderfully, I only have one question to the author or whomever has a better understanding of WMI...

Is there any way to use debug priveleges to do SuspendThread or SetPriority on processes that arent created by the current user?

- I attempted it but nothing I tried worked at all.

If not, how does Windows Task Manager do it? (since it's running under the current user)