Unix su Command in XP?

From: David Jones (kk7gw@yahoo.com)
Date: 11/04/02 

From: "David Jones" <kk7gw@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:14:25 -0800

It's not totally like su, but pretty close:

"runas /?" from a command prompt.

>-----Original Message-----
>
>Is there a way like in Unix, where if you are a user who
>doesn't have Administrator permission that you can
without
>logging off use su command to temporarily give yourself
>administrator privileges?
>
>The situation is, sometimes I go to help a user and I
need
>to use an administrator privilege. So I have to log out,
>log in with my logon that has administrator privileges,
>make the required change and then log off and back on as
>the regular user. This is both time consuming and
>requires the regular user to shutdown all their current
>programs, for something that in many instances is very
>simple.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>.
>

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