Run as administrator with runas savecred command
How to run application as admin via runas from a standard user account without logout login procedure on Windows.
Use runas command in command line, create a batch file or a shortcut with command
runas /user:localhost\accountname cmd.exe
After execute this runas command you will be asked to enter the password of the account.
You can not pass the password to runas command automatically,
but with savecred command you can store this password in credential manager to avoid entering the password on each call.
You will be asked for the password, but in the next calls with savecred paramater you don't have to enter the password.
This savecred parameter is not recommended, because username and password is stored in the windows credential manager of this profile and
can used to execute every program with credentials of the administrator from the standard user account of this profile.
Better storing the credentials for each program separate, instead of using runas savecred.
You find examples below.
How to run a specific application with administrator privileges.
1. You can do this by a launch file for each application separate, with encrypted login information of an administrator account.
2. You use a credential manager on local machine, where you can set the specific application, which is allowed to run with administrator privileges.
Unfortunately both is not possible with runas from microsoft or local policies.
But following free and easy utilities can do this job.
RunAsSpc store login information for each application in an encrypted file.
RunAsAdmnin from RunAsRob has an own manager and save the application you can to run with administrator rights from limited user in registry.
By second tool RunAsRob you can configure complete folders on the local computer or in a network, their contents you want to allow running with administrator privileges.
This is an easy way to distribute software, drivers, patches,... without to create a package for your clients.
You just have to copy the complete setup file in the specific allowed share,
and now the standard user on client can run this setup file, or other executables you copied in this share, with administrator privileges on his own local client computer.
The principle is very simple, clear to understand and easy to configure.
After drag the application over runasrob.exe, RunAsRob just look in computers registry if it is an allowed directory and start it or not.
It is only important that you don't give the user writing NTFS rights to an allowed directory to avoid that he put his own executables in that folder.
You can control the allowed software by simply copy or delete files in that allowed path.
RunAsRob Screenshot
There are lot of other runas tools or utilities you can run application with administrator rights.
- You find a site which compare that tools and list the various options on
Run application as administrator, Runas alternative - Runas in Wikipedia
- Runas tutorial of Microsoft
Date: 2021-09-03
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