Net use And Runas

21 Dec 2006 9:39 AM

oly

1. login windows as user userA ,start one cmd window
2. exec the command " runas /user:userA cmd.exe"
3. in the new cmd window,exec "net use z: \\server\path"
4.in new/old cmd window ,exec "net use".
i find in new cmd window ,i can access the share path Z,but in old cmd
window i can't .
why? The user is same.

21 Dec 2006 9:51 AM

Ian

This is documented behaviour, mappings created with RunAs are not applied to
the default account. Or vice versa.

Unfortunately this is one of the key reasons that RunAs is not the panacea
it's often claimed to be for installing sofware under limited accounts.

21 Dec 2006 11:27 AM

oly

Can u give me a link about this behaviour. because I have no sense about
secrity.

thanks .

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"Ian" wrote:

> This is documented behaviour, mappings created with RunAs are not applied to
> the default account. Or vice versa.
>
> Unfortunately this is one of the key reasons that RunAs is not the panacea
> it's often claimed to be for installing sofware under limited accounts.
>
>