Can "RUNAS" specify the password?

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Hank Arnold

I have a situation where an application (PageMaker 6.5) is installed locally
on a workstation. The user I am setting up will be doing a domain logon. The
app will only load if the user logs on locally as an administrator. We do
not want this for security reasons.

I've found that if I load it using the "RUNAS" command, it will work.
However, this causes a command prompt window to come up that prompts for the
local userid (I created one). Can I set up a shortcut/batch file that will
provide the password? Obviously, I need to address the security issue, but
first things first. The userid/password for the local admin account is the
same as the domain account....
 
I've found that if I load it using the "RUNAS" command, it will work.
However, this causes a command prompt window to come up that prompts for the
local userid (I created one). Can I set up a shortcut/batch file that will
provide the password?
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If there's a way, it's undocumented. Windows Help shows no way to
specify the password for Runas.
 
Hank said:
I have a situation where an application (PageMaker 6.5) is installed locally
on a workstation. The user I am setting up will be doing a domain logon. The
app will only load if the user logs on locally as an administrator. We do
not want this for security reasons.

I've found that if I load it using the "RUNAS" command, it will work.
However, this causes a command prompt window to come up that prompts for the
local userid (I created one). Can I set up a shortcut/batch file that will
provide the password? Obviously, I need to address the security issue, but
first things first. The userid/password for the local admin account is the
same as the domain account....
Click to expand...
Hi,

Different RunAs products listed here, some with encryption
option for the password:

http://groups.google.co.uk/[email protected]

Other ones not mentioned in the link above:

SUperior SU (free, has a command line iterface)
http://www.stefan-kuhr.de/supsu/main.php3

LSrunas/LSrunasE (the latter with password encryption)
http://www.linkselection.com/lsrunas.asp

You may also want to check out PolicyMaker Application Security
(previously NeoExec), the main difference is that it does not require
the use of a second account, as most other RunAs derivatives requires.

PolicyMaker Application Security
http://www.desktopstandard.com/PolicyMakerApplicationSecurity.aspx
 
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