How do I run a program from command prompt as a different user and as an admin

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I am using  runas  to open command prompt  as a different user but that command prompt is not  running as an admin  How can I make it run as an admin   UPDATE  I am using Windows Server 2012  UPDATE  I opened cmd for another account by running   runas  user domain username cmd exe   Then I tried to run some commands in this new prompt but this is not running as an elevated user  even though it has Administrator privileges

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I ve found a way to do this with a single line   runas  user DOMAIN USER2  savecred  powershell -c start-process -FilePath    C   PATH  TO  YOUR  EXECUTABLE EXE    -verb runAs    There are a few tricks going on here    1  We are telling CMD just to run Powershell as DOMAIN USER2  2  We are passing the  Start-Process  command to Powershell  using the verb  runAs  to elevate DOMAIN USER2 to Administrator Elevated privilege mode    As a general note  the escape characters in the  FilePath  argument must be present  in other words  the     amp     character combinations   and the single quotation     must surround the EXE path - this way  CMD interprets the FilePath as a single string  then Powershell uses the single quotation to interpret the FilePath as a single argument   Using the  RunAs  verb to elevate within Powershell  http   ss64 com ps syntax-elevate html

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In my case I was already logged in as a local administrator and I needed to run CMD as a domain admin so what worked for me was running the below from a powershell window   runas  noprofile  user DOMAIN USER  cmd

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Open notepad and paste this code    echo off powershell -Command  Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList   c       echo on   Then  save the file as sudo cmd  Copy this file and paste it at C  Windows System32 or add the path where sudo cmd is to your PATH Environment Variable    When you open command prompt  you can now run something like sudo start     If you want the terminal window to stay open when you run the command  change the code in notepad to this    echo off powershell -Command  Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList   k       echo on   Explanation    powershell -Command runs a powershell command   Start-Process is a powershell command that starts a process  in this case  command prompt   -Verb RunAs runs the command as admin   -Argument-List runs the command with arguments   Our arguments are   c         means all arguments  so if you did sudo foo bar  it would run in command prompt foo bar because the parameters are foo and bar  and    returns foo bar    The  c is a cmd parameter for closing the window after the command is finished  and the  k is a cmd parameter for keeping the window open

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See here  https   superuser com questions 42537 is-there-any-sudo-command-for-windows  According to that the command looks like this for admin    runas  noprofile  user Administrator cmd

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All of these answers unfortunately miss the point   There are 2 security context nuances here  and we need them to overlap  -  Run as administrator  - changing your execution level on your local machine -  Run as different user  - selects what user credentials you run the process under   When UAC is enabled on a workstation  there are processes which refuse to run unless elevated - simply being a member of the local  Administrators  group isn t enough   If your requirement also dictates that you use alternate credentials to those you are signed in with  we need a method to invoke the process both as the alternate credentials AND elevated   What I found can be used  though a bit of a hassle  is    run a CMD prompt as administrator use the Sysinternals psexec utility as follows   psexec   localworkstation -h -i -u domain otheruser exetorun exe   The first elevation is needed to be able to push the psexec service   The -h runs the new  remote   local  process elevated  and -i lets it interact with the desktop   Perhaps there are easier ways than this

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You can use psexec exe from Microsoft Sysinternals Suite https   docs microsoft com en-us sysinternals downloads sysinternals-suite  Example   c  somedir psexec exe -u domain user -p password cmd exe

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Runas doesn t magically run commands as an administrator  it runs them as whatever account you provide credentials for   If it s not an administrator account  runas doesn t care

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The easiest is to create a batch file   bat  and run that as administrator   Right click and  Run as administrator

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Start -  shift   command Prompt right click will helps to use as another user or as Admin

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