RUNAS password

[Ledor Zepe]

I'd like to run patches on our Win2K and WinXP via logon
script. I've tried redirecting the password of the admin
account, see below, but it didn't work:

RUNAS adminuser.... < password.txt

where: password.txt contains the password for adminuser.

In WinNT, I use SU then redirect it to password.txt and it
work. I'd like to do the same trick in RUNAS. Is this
possible?

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Ledor Zepe wrote:

Hi

If it doesn't matter if the password is in clear text:

Sanur Commandline Runas Automation Utility (free)
http://www.commandline.co.uk/sanur/

CPAU on the free win32 c++ tools page of
http://www.joeware.net

if it does:

Some 3rd party RunAs solutions that "hides" (encrypt) username/password
are listed in the link below (buy solutions). Can be run from network shares,
so nothing needs to be installed on the client computers.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E272913.27CBE26D%40hydro.com

And from a recent post by Peter M.:

<quote>
I am currently using AutoIt V3 (http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/)
It includes a command to run a command as a special user. You can
write a simple script and then compile it with autoit as an executable.
Protect this executable with a password and you are done.

AutoIt V3 ist still beta and under development, but the actual version
is stable and the functions you need (runasadmin,regwrite...) are
already implemented and working.
</quote>

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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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