CALS - Temporarily Elevating Your Account to Administrator


Introduction

If you need to perform tasks on your computer that require administrator privileges, you will need to temporarily elevate your account.

Notes

For Windows, the Make Me Admin application is used.

For macOS, the Make Me Admin option in Self Service is used.

Both options will grant administrative rights for 10 minutes. Rebooting the computer during that time will also remove administrative rights.

Prerequisites

You must apply for administrative rights by making a request at Administrative Access for Endpoints and Servers.

Contents

Instructions

Windows

  1. Go to the Start menu, locate and click Make Me Admin to run the application.
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  2. The Make Me Admin window will appear. Click Grant Me Administrator Rights.
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  3. The application will close, and a Windows notification will appear in the lower-right corner of the screen indicating that administrative privileges have been granted.
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  4. After 10 minutes, another notification will appear to indicate that administrative privileges have been removed.
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  5. Note: If you want to remove administrative privileges before the allotted time, you can run the Make Me Admin application and click Remove My Administrator Rights.
  6. When a task that requires administrative privileges is performed, you will be prompted for your username and password.
    1. For Username, type hokies\YOUR_PID.
    2. For Password, type YOUR_PID_PASSWORD.
  7. Click Yes and the task will begin.
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macOS

  1. Start Finder and go to the Applications folder.
  2. Double-click the Self Service application.
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  3. Click Make Me Admin and then click OK.
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  4. Once it completes, your account will have administrator privileges for 10 minutes.
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  5. Note: There isn’t a notification when administrator privileges are removed.
  6. When a task that requires administrative privileges is performed, you will be prompted for your username and password.
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    1. The username will be filled in automatically.
    2. For Password, type YOUR_MACOS_PASSWORD.

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