lo monks I am using perl on windows 2000 for a lot of admin work. I am trying to automate the runas command to get a dos prompt with admin rights and use that to move some files etc. runas /user:administrator cmd in windows with will give you Enter password for administrator: Is there a way to get perl to send the password to the prompt and then ENTER this would leave me with a admin cmd which I would need to send further instructions to. I can do this in vbs but I want to make it an exe so the admin password is not clear text. I tried 
system('runas /user:administrator cmd');
sleep2;
system('thepassword');
sleep2;
system('echo did it work?');

but naturally the system waits until runas has finished before going o
+n.

VBS handles it like this


set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.Run "C:\Winnt\System32\Runas.exe /USER:administrator cmd"
WScript.Sleep 2000

'1 Send keys to enter password.
WshShell.SendKeys "thepassword"
WScript.Sleep 580

'1 Send Enter key.
WshShell.SendKeys "{Enter}"
WScript.Sleep 500

'1 Send other keys.
WshShell.SendKeys "echo commands here run in admin mode"
WScript.Sleep 500

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any ideas?

Edit by tye to replace password

In reply to sending test to command prompt by ironpaw

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