Ranorex Local Admin Rights Question

Ranorex Studio, Spy, Recorder, and Driver.
kdreiling
Posts: 34
Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:45 pm
Location: Kansas City

Ranorex Local Admin Rights Question

Post by kdreiling » Thu Apr 14, 2022 9:04 pm

Hello,

I am trying to roll out Ranorex Studio to the rest of our QA team, and getting push back from Security on giving local admin rights on our VDI's. It is my understanding that Ranorex Studio Debugger will not work, nor will Ranorex Remote Agent launch successfully with out local admin rights.

I went back through the forum to see if I could find any recent posts, but 2017 seems a big far back. Can someone give me a concrete answer that I can take back to Security as to why local admin rights is required for Ranorex? I advised the reasons above, but I want clarification that this remains the same today.

Thank you in advance!

Jacob
Certified Professional
Certified Professional
Posts: 120
Joined: Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:01 pm

Re: Ranorex Local Admin Rights Question

Post by Jacob » Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:32 pm

Hi kdreiling,

Local admin rights aren't always required, but they sure do help. In many cases you can use Ranorex without local admin privileges so long as the applications you are testing are using the same privileges as Ranorex Studio. You are correct in that the debugger will not work without local admin privileges. This is because the ability to inspect actively running processes in Windows requires elevated permissions (and for good reason!) The Remote Agents answer is a bit trickier, but generally still accurate.

It may be possible to just allow end users to run Ranorex Studio as an admin via Group Policy instead of providing local admin privileges to the entire instance. I'm not a SysAdmin, so I can't confirm that beyond a quick search online that yields this result. I hope the confirmation helps, and maybe the information in the link provided gives your SysAdmins another possible solution. Good luck!

--Jacob
Image

kdreiling
Posts: 34
Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:45 pm
Location: Kansas City

Re: Ranorex Local Admin Rights Question

Post by kdreiling » Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:46 pm

Thank you, Jacob!

I'll pass this along to our Security team and see if they can research the Group Policy solution. would assume that any automation tool would require the same admin privs to run effectively, so any company wanting to do automation should realize this is going to be a requirement.

I appreciate your comment!