Already a member? Close this window and log in. Join Us Close. Join Tek-Tips Forums! Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. My problem is that 'RunAs' just doesn't work. RunAs doesn't work with any exe, e. The overall effect is that we are locked out of being able to administer the PC without logging on as Administrator.
Does anyone know of any circumstances that would prevent RunAs from working or know of any things I may have done to stop it from working Group Policy, Registry setting? Anything here apply? Do you not want to just use the local security context? Hi linney and bcastner. I was hoping you guys would respond.
I need help with this problem otherwise I'm going to have to create a new disk image from scratch. Unfortunately, there's no difference between trying to use RunAs either in a CMD window or by right-clicking on a program e.
Re: KB - This explains what should happen, not what I'm experiencing. Re: KB - These are local programs, not programs on mapped drives. Some use 'Sanur. This was when I realised that RunAs itself was no longer working. Still no joy. I wasn't aware of the CMD 'gotcha'. I've tried right-clicking on explorer.
I get the prompt to change user, change to 'Administrator' and enter the admin password but still nothing happens. I'm not getting a 'Logon failure:unknown user name or bad password' error so the password is accepted Here's where it gets weird.
I've just discovered that this failure is only with trying to run 'exe' files using RunAs. We hide all the Administrative Tools from users so one of my scripts uses RunAs using Sanur to pipe the password to display the Services snap-in services. Could this be Registry corruption regarding registration of 'exe' files? One possibility is a path issue. I thought maybe there would be a way to do this using Runas, but have not succeeded yet.
Am I overlooking something? Please help. How would I use runas in which the command and the arguments both have spaces, e. Or if the command does not have spaces, but the argument s do, then there is also no issue, e. However, when both the command and the argument s have spaces and need to be quoted, then it will not run.
Note that I was able to get this to work using cmd as a wrapper so that the actual command to runas does not have spaces, but the syntax was even more ugly and contorted than above, e. But right now , it is showing error msg in ProcessShellCommand cmdInfo. Please suggest some alternatives. Hi, I have a service that run some scripts with administrator privileges, but the scripts work only if it was run by a simple user.
I have change the account connection of the service, but the scripts keep been launch with administrator privileges. So how can I run it? Is there a way to have the command line script launch as admin and enter the password without typing it in manually? Have you found a resolution as yet? I am also looking for a solution to enter a password automatically.
Hey I made the runas batch file but when the cmd-like window opens up I am unable to type in any text for the administrator password. Any thoughts? I have batch file which make changes to the local machine host file. This batch needs to be run with a local administrative user. I have the user name and password both. I want to install it with the user login Please advise about the cmd comments. I have tried the below, but not sure if my actual script is working though to launch wordpad as admin and capture the password directly.
Is there a way to have the command line script launch as different user and enter the password without typing it in manually? Windows runas command syntax and examples by Srini. Run a program from another user account The command to launch a program using another user credentials is given below.
I enter the password for user 'rakesh'. What am I missing here? Reply Link. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Security.
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