Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Granted, I've only tried to use the runas command 7 or 10 times, but as far as I can remember, it has _never_ worked for me. It tries to, but then it runs up against some sort of permission error or something. It feels like Microsoft wanted to implement a sudo-like capability, but just got about 80% of it working.On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:17:23 -0400, ScruLoose <scruloose+debuser@eastlink.ca>penned:Of course, there's also the fact that since they run Windows, they are of necessity logged in with admin privileges *all* the time, so it only takes one click to install an executable that then has full access to the system, including network devices...Not necessarily -- later versions of windows have the "runas" command so that you don't have to be logged in as admin just to have access to admin functions.
-- Kent