Runas in another Windows terminal session

Question

For simplicity, let\'s say the user Administrator is logged in in terminal session 2. Another user Boda is logged in terminal session

Answer 1

There is a commandline tool and it’s called RunInSession. You need to specify at least the SessionId in which you want to launch the process and which process you want to launch. Optional is servername if you want to launch on a remote server. If you run it without parameters a dialog with possible parameters is shown:

Currently supported OS versions are Windows XP, 2003, Vista and 2008.

The program needs to run in the context of the Localsystem user, therefore it temporarily installs itself as service and start itself. With the WTSQueryUserToken it obtains the Primary User token of the requested Terminal Session. Finally the process is launched with CreateProcessAsUser and the service deletes itself.

More details:

• How to launch a process in a Terminal Session
• Launching an interactive process from Windows Service in Windows Vista and later