in reply to Runas using open

runas.exe does not read passwords from stdin. It uses a call, CredUICmdLinePromptForCredentials() from a system dll that accesses the console directly. I assume that this is designed as a security measure.

You may be able to use Win32::Console to obtain a handle to the current console and the WriteInput() method to drive the program. This is an untested idea.

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Re^2: Runas using open
by slloyd (Hermit) on Jun 12, 2005 at 04:46 UTC
    Till now, I have never used Win32::Console. I tried a bunch of things but could not get anything to work...

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