Runas.exe Review

The primary purpose of runas.exe is to spawn a new process under the security context of another user account. This is particularly useful for:

: Launching software under a restricted account to verify security permissions. runas.exe

: Connecting to network resources using credentials from a different domain or workgroup. Command Syntax and Options The primary purpose of runas

The basic syntax for the command is: runas /user:AccountName "ProgramPath" runas.exe

: Running management consoles or installation scripts from a standard user account.