privileges - Does full trust mean the same as Run As Administrator

Question

Does full trust mean the same as Run As Administrator? I have read things stating that "for this to work, the application must be a full-trust application." Is that the same as you must have administrator privileges to run the application? If not, what's the difference? How can you tell if an app is "full-trust"?

I am told that "Administrator or not, .Net apps won't do certain things if they aren't running from a 'trusted' location." What is a "trusted location"? If you run an app from a "trusted location", can you do things that "require full-trust" without being an administrator?

Answer 1

No. Full-trust is a .NET term used to indicate that it's not running in a reduced-priviledge .NET sandbox. In .NET prior to 3.5 SP1, this included running from a network share (in the default configuration). It also includes running as a ClickOnce application that has not requested additional permissions, or in some other browser-based sandbox.

Full-trust means it can do anything the user it is running as can do, not that is running as an administrator.