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In computing, runas (a compound word, from “run as”) is a command in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems that allows a user to run specific tools and programs under a different username to the one that was used to logon to a computer interactively. [1]
With these programs, administrators explicitly authorize programs to run with higher privileges. Non-administrators are prompted for an administrator username and password. PolicyKit can be configured to adopt any of these approaches. In practice, the distribution will choose one.
In earlier versions of Windows, Applications written with the assumption that the user will be running with administrator privileges experienced problems when run from limited user accounts, often because they attempted to write to machine-wide or system directories (such as Program Files) or registry keys (notably HKLM). [5]
The Unix and Linux access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for set user identity and set group identity) [1] allow users to run an executable with the file system permissions of the executable's owner or group respectively and to change behaviour in directories. They are often used to allow users on a computer system to run programs with ...
A privilege is applied for by either an executed program issuing a request for advanced privileges, or by running some program to apply for the additional privileges. An example of a user applying for additional privileges is provided by the sudo command to run a command as superuser user, or by the Kerberos authentication system.
Because Everything requires access to the NTFS change journal, it must run with administrator privileges, either in a privileged user account or as a Windows service.As a Windows service it can expose search functionality to accounts without administrator privileges. [13]
Remote users are unable to access the built-in administrator account. A Windows administrator account is not an exact analogue of the Unix root account – Administrator, the built-in administrator account, and a user administrator account have the same level of privileges. The default user account created in Windows systems is an administrator ...
Moves require administrators when non-administrators are prevented via protection from executing the move. Specifically, when the page at its current title is move-protected or its intended title is fully creation-protected, an admin needs to perform the move.