Re: Executing a program as a different user

From: name (nospam_at_user.com)
Date: 10/30/04

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    I doubt the implication.

    "43 kilobytes"

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    Sure the usual 3 cross posts nowadays apply.

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    Mike must have aches while turning at his Washington address.

    "Gregor Smerke" <GregorSmerke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:82B17412-62B5-44E7-B2C6-8735188B99DD@microsoft.com...
    > You can use Script Factory Impersonator (SFImpersonator.dll) for this
    purpose:
    >
    > http://cwashington.netreach.net/main/tools/default.asp?topic=n-z
    >
    > To start an executable as another user (let say privileged user) using
    this
    > method, follow these steps:
    >
    > 1. copy SFImpersonator.dll to C:\Windows\System32
    > 2. regsvr32 SFImpersonator.dll
    >
    > Then use the following framework in your VBS:
    >
    > Set objImpersonator = CreateObject("SFImpersonator.Impostor")
    > objImpersonator.Impersonate conPrivilegedUserName, conPrivilegedPassword,
    > conPrivilegedDomainName, conLogonTypeInteractive (= 2)
    > Set objWMIService =
    > GetObject("WinMgmtS:{ImpersonationLevel=Impersonate}!\\.\Root\CIMV2")
    > objImpersonator.RevertToSelf
    > Set objProcess = objWMIService.Get("Win32_Process")
    > objProcess.Create "C:\Path\Program.exe", Null, Null, intProcessId
    >
    > As objProcess.Create does not load the privileged user’s profile by
    itself,
    > it must have already been loaded, otherwise the call will fail. This
    > requirement can be achieved by using system services in a number of ways:
    > - you might have already got a service on your system that is running
    under
    > the privileged user account
    > - if not and if appropriate, create a service only for this purpose using
    a
    > Windows Resource Kit Tool called SrvAny
    > - otherwise you could create a service using WMI Win32_Service methods in
    > your code on the fly. First create a service that will run under the
    > privileged user, start it, execute Program.exe line, stop and remove the
    > service
    > - a subvariation of previous method would be hijacking an already present
    > (system) service, stopping it, changing the service's Log On As user
    account
    > to privileged, starting it, executing the program, stopping the service,
    > changing again the account to the original and starting it

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