Running shutdown.exe without being administrator

[Master Blaster]

I'm running a lab with 35 student PCs and 1 instructor PC. I have created a
batch file to turn on, restart, and shutdown the student PCs from the
instructor's station. Everything works fine as long as the instructor's
logged on as admin but I eventually need to downgrade their accounts to no
more than power users. Is there a way I can make shutdown work under
user/power user account? I have heard of SAVECRED but have not really
explored it. I'm looking for something like RUNAS. Some way to just create
a shortcut button that the instructors can click without being prompted for
admin username and password.

thanks

 

[Frank]

Create a new shortcut and edit the comand line below to
your aplication and Computer name and Admin account name.
Run it once and add in the admin password when prompted
to and it will save it.


C:\WINDOWS\system32\runas.exe /profile /env /user:LOCAL
COMPUTER NAME\ADMIN ACCOUNT NAME /savecred "mmc %windir%
\system32\dfrg.msc"

 

[Master Blaster]

Thanks. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Create a new shortcut and edit the comand line below to
your aplication and Computer name and Admin account name.
Run it once and add in the admin password when prompted
to and it will save it.


C:\WINDOWS\system32\runas.exe /profile /env /user:LOCAL
COMPUTER NAME\ADMIN ACCOUNT NAME /savecred "mmc %windir%
\system32\dfrg.msc"