I want the account to be able to use one app that requires administrative privileges. I have contacted the support team of the app to find out why it needs these privileges, but I didn’t receive any helpful information.

The app is for viewing surveillance footage, but it requires admin privileges to open. I don’t want to make every employee an administrator just for this one use case. It might be better to switch to a FOSS app that doesn’t require administrative privileges by default.

The cameras we currently use are made by the vendor of the app, so maybe we’re locked in somehow? The NVR is also made by them, so it might be possible, but I don’t know for sure. I need to look into it more.

  • Blaster MEnglish
    4•6 days ago

    … and this is why we use unifi… the ability to control viewer permissions and not require a chinese program designed for windows xp that requires admin privs just to view cams.

    I assume you’ve already explored the option of using the browser page for the nvr and that doesn’t work for some reason? Browser pages don’t require admin.