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runas — Run a program as another user. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/previous-versions/wind

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Problem

How to use the runas command: Run a program as another user. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc771525(v=ws.11)>.

Solution

runas — Run a program as another user. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc771525(v=ws.11)>.

Run a program as the Administrator local user:
runas /user:.\Administrator "{{command}}"


Run a program as a specific user:
runas /user:{{domain\username}} "{{command}}"


Run a program without loading the user's profile:
runas /noprofile /user:{{domain\username}} "{{command}}"


Open Command Prompt as another user:
runas /user:{{domain\username}} cmd


Run Notepad as a specific user with the current user's environment variables, opening a file with escaped quotes:
runas /env /user:{{domain\username}} "notepad \"{{C:\path\to\file.txt}}\""


Run Active Directory Users and Computers as a specific user:
runas /env /user:{{domain\username}} "mmc %windir%\system32\dsa.msc"

Code Snippets

Run a program as the Administrator local user

runas /user:.\Administrator "{{command}}"

Run a program as a specific user

runas /user:{{domain\username}} "{{command}}"

Run a program without loading the user's profile

runas /noprofile /user:{{domain\username}} "{{command}}"

Open Command Prompt as another user

runas /user:{{domain\username}} cmd

Run Notepad as a specific user with the current user's environment variables, opening a file with escaped quotes

runas /env /user:{{domain\username}} "notepad \"{{C:\path\to\file.txt}}\""

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