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Why doesn’t the RunAs program accept a password on the command line?

November 29, 2004 Nov 29, 2004 11/29/04

Raymond Chen

The RunAs program demands that you type the password manually. Why doesn't it accept a password on the command line? This was a conscious decision. If it were possible to pass the password on the command line, people would start embedding passwords into batch files and logon scripts, which is laughably insecure. In other words, the ...