Run program with administrator permissions from user account

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I need to set up a lap-top for a colleague. He should have normal user account, but in order to connect to the university network, he requires a program that needs administrative permissions to run. The program is a command line utility.

Is it possible to somehow run the program as administrator from his account, without requiring him to enter administrator password?

P.S. We tried running program as a service, but that didn't work out because the program requires interaction with the user (credentials for university network).

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '12 at 19:47

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To achieve this you can use runas command:

runas /savecred /user:Administrator command

But as well-pointed by Tejs, this is will open computer to security attacks.

answered May 21 '12 at 19:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '12 at 18:43

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Umm.. no? That's the whole point of the security context requiring him to enter the administrative password.

If you could, there would be a whole host of nasty viruses out in the wild.

answered May 21 '12 at 18:43

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 09:41

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Try RunAsUser, works in my Windows XP, I'm not sure it works in other windows system.

answered Mar 04 '13 at 09:41

Doomineer

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