Re: "RunAs" utility

From: Marlon Brown (marlon_brown_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:55:39 -0700

Unfortunately in my case the installer needs to perform several functions
that rely on full network access - what usually cannot be accomplished via
startup scripts.

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:0J5qc.15247$qA.1867649@attbi_s51...
> I don't know of an answer to your question but if a script can be run as a
computer
> startup script, then it runs in system context and users can have
permissions removed
> from the script so that they can not view it in sysvol as long as domain
computers
> has permissions to the script. --- Steve
>
> "Marlon Brown" <marlon_brown@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O0BAzXBPEHA.1516@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I need to run a script using "runas" command since my logged on users
are
> > non administrators on the local machine.
> >
> > Is there any available tool "runas" that is considered secure enough to
be
> > used and applied as a group policy-logon script ? I am currently
enconding a
> > .vbs script but obviously that is a very weak protection. I would like a
> > 'runas' tool that is protected by password.
> >
> >
>
>

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