How to gain administrator rights?

Question

hi all, i work for a multinational company, which is somehow a market leader in many fields, anyway, this issue is that i got a laptop from them, but as usual, i'm not the administrator on it, i'm missing a lot of access rights, surely can't install any software (which is needed to my work to deliver in higher speed, and we even have a license for it on the company's server) i also can't connect to the internet from my home network, as i don't have the rights to manage network connections, i can't use the wirless connection, between many other things, but i still need this current account as it's, cos form it i can check my business mail, and this is the only way to do it, and i don't also mind keeping the help desk administrative rights, i saw some guys from my work place installing a software under dos & now they all have the administrator rights, but they didn't pass the software over for me. can anybody help me with it?

Answer 1

Many techies consider it a good practice to change the local administrator password anyways because legitimate domain administrators don't need the local administrator password to administer your box (their domain rights cover that), but the main reason it should be changed is because  most IT shops have standard images they push out meaning your local admin password is the same as everybody else's with the same image as you and this presents a significant high risk / high likelihood vulnerability because any knucklehead upon compromising or cracking their own, will by default have admin rights to yours too. (can you say \\victim\C$?)  Now how easy is it to get local admin rights?  Easy:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthe...

How easy is it to get fired for monkeying with this stuff?  Well if they fire you for administering your own box then the job was a crappy one anyways.  I've had 3 or 4 jobs in IT now and the only time I wasn't allowed admin rights to my own machine was at an entry level Gateway tech support CRM job I held back in college.  Realistically if a company feels they have to micromanage things to that degree then they'll need a helpdesk staff 8 to 10 times larger then normal companies just to run around and install stuff all day.  Think about it.  With all these webapps these days everything you click on needs to install some activex control, update to java, flash, adobe acrobat, silverlight, on and on it goes.  No doubt some idiot will proclaim you don't need those things..  Then you open another ticket and have the help-monkey stare at a black window where some intranet B2B webapp is supposed to be running... sheesh.  As if they can foresee every possible app required for you to do your job in a constantly evolving environment.  Well maybe they could, if they hired 8 times as many.. wait...  I think I already said that.   Of course giving users local admin rights depends on good network and host based IDS, IPS, baselines, CM, backups, antivirus, ACLs, anti-malware, and anti-spyware in place.  They got that right?  Because if you give the users local admin rights they WILL bork their system.  That's when we roll out a fresh image.  You caught the backups part already right?  And you WERE keeping everything important on your H: drive right? And on it goes...

Answer 2

You can't, as far as I know, unless you reinstall the OS by yourself.

Answer 3

You cant get the rights unless the admins pass it to you....literally speaking...no way to get the rights

Answer 4

ask it admins

Answer 5

If there is software required for your work, your IT department will happily install it for you. Any other attempt to get admin access would be illegal, and most companies I support have an instant dismissal policy for anyone interfering with this.