how do you pipe the password with Runas?

i m trying to find a way to pipe the password with runas for automatic script. I google and can't find anything except third party softwares, which i dont' prefer.

does anybody know how?

thanks

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sprkymrk

You can't. Microsoft locked it down to prevent people from doing that.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/serversecurity/administratoraccounts/aapgch03.mspx

Note: It is not possible to input the password as a command-line parameter to runas.exe, because it would not be secure to do so.

Many other references say the same thing, and I have seen a million people looking for a way to make the runas.exe accept an automated way to input the password. The answer always comes back the same - you can't.

sprkymrk

On another note, however, you can pass alternate credentials using vbscript, as long as it is run against a remote computer and not the local computer:

strComputer = "server1"
strNamespace = "root\cimv2"
strUser = "administrator"
strPassword = "password123"

Set objWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = objwbemLocator.ConnectServer _
    (strComputer, strNamespace, strUser, strPassword)

royal

You can use TQrunas. It is essentially runas which allows you to also supply a password. You can find this utility here.

Worktruck

I've used CPAU a few times to runas in scripting. If you do use it I'd make user to use the little encryption feature, because if not the user name and password of the account will show up in plain text when the script runs, and you really don't want that.

http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/index.htm