How to complete the RUNAS command in one line

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This Stack nbsp Overflow question suggests a command which looks as if it should work  but it doesn t  that answer is deleted now  though    Single line command for Run as a different user on Window 7 that contains a password also  The command would be   echo PaSsWoRd   runas  user Administrator cmd   However it says      unknown user name or bad password    The details are definitely correct though  For example  if I was to run   runas  user Administrator      and on the next line  if I typed in PaSsWoRd  it would work no problem

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The runas command does not allow a password on its command line. This is by design (and also the reason you cannot pipe a password to it as input). Raymond Chen says it nicely:

The RunAs program demands that you type the password manually. Why doesn't it accept a password on the command line?

This was a conscious decision. If it were possible to pass the password on the command line, people would start embedding passwords into batch files and logon scripts, which is laughably insecure.

In other words, the feature is missing to remove the temptation to use the feature insecurely.

[cmd] How to complete the RUNAS command in one line

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