Abmindicate

Abmindicate, a tool for abdicating Administrator rights

If you'd like to see Abmindicate ported to Mac OS X, vote for that here.

If you'd like to see Abmindicate ported to Linux, vote for that here.

How to use

Using the following executable carries some risk. In particular, if you perform an unexpected series of actions while using it, such as attempting to uninstall it without using the official "uninstall" command, there is some risk you'll lose Administrator access permanently. If you think you'll do that, and that sounds horrible to you, please don't use it.

Only Click the following download button, and run the installer.
download
Open up an elevated cmd.exe prompt (in explorer, right click on cmd.exe icon and select "Run as Administrator").

This normally puts "Administrator:" in the title bar of the cmd window. Here is a screenshot from Windows 10.
Run abmindicate.
```
abmindicate
```
Here are some examples:
1. Drop Administrator role always, except on Saturdays from 10-11am
```
abmindicate except A10-11
```
2. Drop Administrator role for the next 3 days:
```
abmindicate until now+3d
```
After abdicating the Administrator role, you must log out to actually lose Administrator privileges.
Don't forget to register your use of abmindicate using abmindicate@pluckeye.net! The author requires you do this so he can send important bug fix announcements to users (and he won't disclose your email address to a third party).
To uninstall, run:
```
abmindicate.exe uninstall
```

Alternatives

Instead of a utility like Abmindicate, one option is to manually create another computer administrator, assign it a long random password, and save the password on http://lockbox.pluckeye.net/ .

Similar tools

crontab (linux or macosx)

Like abmindicate, the following commands are dangerous. And if you are not careful with them, you may remove your own administrative access and be unable to recover it. Beware!

sudo crontab -l | grep -v abmindicate >/tmp/root_crontab
for group in `groups`; do # abmindicate
  case $group in admin|sudo|wheel);; *) continue;; esac # abmindicate
  echo "# gain $group group on Saturdays at 1100 # abmindicate" >>/tmp/root_crontab
  echo "00 11 * * 6 /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G $group $USER # abmindicate" >>/tmp/root_crontab
  echo "# lose $group group on Saturdays at 1200 # abmindicate" >>/tmp/root_crontab
  echo "00 12 * * 6 /usr/sbin/usermod -G `id -Gn $USER | perl -lpe 's/\b$group\b//;s/\s+/,/g' # abmindicate` $USER >>/tmp/root_crontab
done
sudo crontab /tmp/root_crontab

Or maybe see this script.

delayed-admin (linux or macosx)