

Find the WireGuard program, right-click and select "run as admin" one time. Then click OK on the Select Groups window, and click OK on the Properties window. You will have the option to select the Network Configuration Operators group. In the “ Enter the object names to select” text box, type in Network Configuration Operators and click Check Names. Select the Member Of tab. Then, click Add… at the bottom of the screen. To do this, run Local Users and Groups as an administrator (type in lusrmgr.msc into the Run window, right click, and select Run as administrator), select the Users folder, right click the user you want to give permissions to, and then click Properties. Providing permissions to non-admin user.Īfter setting the RegEdit DWORD key, you need to provide new permissions to the user who you want to be able to connect/disconnect to the VPN. Right click the LimitedOperatorUI key, and create a DWORD key and set it to 1ģ. Once Regedit opens, expand the hive and keys for HKLM\Software\WireGuard\LimitedOperatorUI. To do that type in regedit.msc into the Run window, right click, and select Run as administrator. Now for some deep dive stuffRun RegEdit as an administrator. The user won't be able to create or delete new tunnels, just use existing ones. Start by installing the WireGuard quick configuration file as an administrator.

It's possible to connect to a WIreGuard VPN without having administrator privileges, but sadly the process is not well documented. It can be a problem for users to run the WireGuard client when logged in as a non-admin user, and even when running the Wireguard as admin you get the message "WireGuard is running, but the UI is only accessible from desktops of the Builtin Administrators group." Wireguard Windows running GUI as non-admin
