You don't need admin to do it to yourself, otherwise debuggers wouldn't work. It will fail if you do it for an unrelated user though. Basically the permissions

You don't need admin to do it to yourself, otherwise debuggers wouldn't work. It will fail if you do it for an unrelated user though. Basically the permissions are enforced at OpenProcess(), and these are the permissions you can ask for: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/process-security-and-access-rights https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/pr...