MiniRunAs - A minimalist "run as" for Windows

MiniRunAs is used to run a program with a different Windows user. It is an alternative to the Windows runas command.

Features

• Open source.
• The password is specified as a parameter on the command-line.
• No additional console output is written during normal execution.
• No quotes are needed to specify the command-line of the program to be run. So there is no need to escape quote characters in the command-line and a backslash character at the end of the line is not a problem (which would otherwise escape the closing quote).
• Calls the CreateProcessWithLogonW Win32 API function, which uses the "Secondary Logon" Windows service to start a program in a different security context.
• Written in C++. Small and (relatively) simple source code. May be compiled by Microsoft Visual C++ Express.

Usage

miniRunAs <user> <password> <commandline>

Examples

miniRunAs administrator sesame ping localhost
miniRunAs administrator sesame "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" /T:4F
miniRunAs administrator sesame cmd.exe /c dir /p C:\
miniRunAs username@domain sesame notepad.exe

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Author: Christian d'Heureuse (www.source-code.biz, www.inventec.ch/chdh)
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