RunAs A different user when debugging in Visual Studio

Question

I\'m trying to run the program I\'m debugging as a different user. Now, this can be done by running the exe and attaching from Visual Studio, but this is cumbersome.

Answer 1

cmd.exe is located in different locations in different versions of Windows. To avoid needing the location of cmd.exe, you can use the command moogs wrote without calling "cmd.exe /C".

Here's an example that worked for me:

1. Open Command Prompt
2. Change directory to where your application's .exe file is located.
3. Execute the following command: runas /user:domain\username Application.exe

So the final step will look something like this in Command Prompt:

C:\Projects\MyProject\bin\Debug>runas /user:domain\username Application.exe

Note: the domain name was required in my situation.