Question

How to start BAT file as an Administrator using runas.exe command.

Asked by: TarasShumylo

I can not get the correct syntaxes of runas.exe command to start BAT files as an administrator from user profile. I want the command in one row. Of course I can start CMD.EXE as an administrator and then start BAT file, but it is long.
I want to start BAT file like a msi o msc file

runas.exe /user:Domain\username "mmc.exe gpedit.msc"

Something like that

P.S. If I write runas.exe /user:Domain\username "cmd.exe 1.bat" only command promt opens. But BAT file doesn't start to work.

Thank you!

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2009-09-21 at 00:39:42ID24747634
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Answers

 

by: oBdAPosted on 2009-09-21 at 00:51:55ID: 25380878

add a /c or /k after cmd.exe; /c will close the command window once the batch file has been processed, /k will keep it open:
runas.exe /user:Domain\username "cmd.exe /c 1.bat"

 

by: TarasShumyloPosted on 2009-09-21 at 01:00:34ID: 31631309

Thank you. That works.

 

by: bpanowtvPosted on 2009-09-21 at 01:04:06ID: 25380948

please try this:
runas.exe /user:Domain\username 1.bat

runas.exe /user:Domain\username "cmd.exe 1.bat" will tell the runas to run cmd.exe, but not the 1.bat. and given that 1.bat is an executable batch file.

you may refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490994.aspx for more details.

 

by: TarasShumyloPosted on 2009-09-21 at 01:06:32ID: 25380962

runas.exe doen't start anything else than *.exe. You can find it by typing runas.exe /?
Because all files have exe that open it.

 

by: UsurpatirusPosted on 2009-09-21 at 01:56:31ID: 25381156

runas /profile /user:DOMAIN\USER "c:\1.bat"
on WinXP SP3 it's works

 

by: TarasShumyloPosted on 2009-09-21 at 02:39:24ID: 25381305

Yes, sorry.It works. Perhaps I missed something. Maybe I wrote the command wrong.

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