Wow, you really are even more completely incompetent than I thought you
were.
Let me ask you a question: why are there such things as pivilege levels and
accounts?
In one word---security!
Why would anyone want to selectively alter their account/privileges?
SECURITY!
Even you say that this is the reason for runas:
purpose is, actually, to run programs as any user different from the one
you're logged in as.
and why would anyone want to do that?
could it be related reasons of, wait for it --- SECURITY?
You say it's more of a 'general purpose' utility. No it isn't. It has one
purpose --- to switch accounts, and switching accounts' main purpose is
(according to MS, as well as myself) SECURITY!!!
If I had more time I would make a WAV file of our IT group's collective
howls of
laughter at you, so that you COULD hear it (because brother, trust me, they
are out there and they are laughing and laughing HARD), but it might cause
irreversible damage to your obviously fragile mental state.
You seem to think that it is something worth bragging about that you are
familiar with MS os ware dating back to NT4 --- HAH, big wow. Were you
using NT because UNIX was too complicated for you?
Why, I was hand-coding assemby routines on the IBM System 360, for the
defence industry, with one hand, while fighting off commie infiltrators with
the other in the seventies. And doing field work on Navy crypto-gear in the
Gulf of Tonkin, and on digital repeater gear on mountaintops in Cambodia
with the NVA agents dragging my co-workers into the jungle and cutting open
their abdominal cavities with butcher knives and pulling all their
INTESTINES OUT!!! While you were sitting in your little pensiones, drinking
cappucino, and eating gelato ice cream, I was held prisoner for four years
in A TIGER CAGE WITH HUGE BLACK NORWAY RATS CHEWING ON MY TESTICLES!!!!!
Now we'll see what your made of, Mr Massimo, Mr
I'm-So-Smart-About-Computers, what have you got say about THAT?
Where are you going to go with this?