Running IE as a different user with Selenium Webdriver in Java

Question

Does anyone know how I could get selenium to run an IE session utilising the \"Run as different user\" function using JAVA? I have no idea how I\'d even go about setting th

Answer 1

Looks like it's possible to do this using Windows Credential Manager. I was able to manually set the username & password for the site, then drive there with Selenium and the alternate credential I specified was used to authenticate.

The next step is to set the credential at runtime, which should be possible with powershell.