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by the moose

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I have an old data storage application that runs on a windows 95 machine in a W2K domain.

This application will only run properly with an administrator's account.

I can use runas (a member of domain admin group)from a W2K Workstation logged onas a user and all works great.

But... does anyone know of a way I can let my users do this without compromising a domain admin account ?

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by public

You see what I want to do is tricky.
I want to write up a .bat file with the runas command in it. I am going to create a local admin on the computer that has the legacy app on it. Then in the runas .bat file, i want to tell it to use that local admin login and password.

Then I plan to give it to a Visual Basic programming friend of mine to make it into a .EXE so users cannot actually VIEW the file.

The problem is, I cant figure out how to tell runas what the password to the admin account it.

Have you found out anything yet?

-Ginel
public@lipan.org

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