vulps
11th April 2008 15:47 UTC
runas does not wait the finish of child process
Hello everybody,
I want to run a batch file (sqlcmd.exe with some sql scripts) under a different user account other than currently logged in.
I know runas plugin and already tried it.
There are some issues with runas plugin.
First of all it does not wait until the end of the process that it started. Second issue is, I need to get output of the child process (error hadling, logging etc. ). It would be also nice not to see any external window ( command prompt ) popping up.
Do you know any alternative to runas.
Welcome all suggestions.
Thank you
Selim
Afrow UK
11th April 2008 16:09 UTC
There is an alternative which at
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/File:RunAs.zip
Stu
vulps
14th April 2008 13:45 UTC
Thanks Afrow
I have extracted it under plugins dir. Nothing seems wrong, but whenever I try to use RunAs::RunAs It returns "error".
Selim
Anders
14th April 2008 14:06 UTC
Afrow, why are you doing
while (WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess, 500) == WAIT_TIMEOUT)
instead of just
WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess, INFINITE)
to wait for the child process? If you want to wait without the gui locking up, you must use MsgWaitForMultipleObjects or something like that.
Also not sure why you are calling LookupAccountName, CreateProcessWithLogonW will fail if the login is wrong so no point in checking yourself first is there?