Running PowerShell as another user, and launching a script

powershell runas
Little King picture Little King · Mar 11, 2015 · Viewed 345.7k times · Source

I won't get into all the details of why I need this, but users must be able to launch PowerShell as a service account and when PowerShell loads it needs to run a script. I already can launch PowerShell with the stored credentials (stored as a secure string), but for the life of me I cannot get the script (located in $args) to run. I have tried a variety of things, and below is where I am currently. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

$user = "domain\service.account" 
$pwd1 = "big long huge string of characters"
$pwd = ($pwd1 | ConvertTo-SecureString)
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $user, $pwd
$args = "\\domain.local\location\location\location\Script\script.ps1"
Start-Process powershell.exe -Credential $Credential -ArgumentList ("-file $args")

Answer

George Livingston picture George Livingston · Jun 29, 2016

You can open a new powershell window under a specified user credential like this:

start powershell -credential ""

enter image description here

Related questions

Powershell start notepad.exe and a command windows starts and disappears

I have a script to start another ps1 script as aspecific user that does a simple dir on a directory and it works, when it runs a separate cmd window appears with the directory contents. $encpwd = Get-Content C:\path\to\…

Read More
Verb RunAs in a Start-Process Powershell command causes an error

If I run the following command in a Poweshell script file ($cmd refers to some executable): Start-Process -FilePath $cmd -Verb RunAs Powershell Then it executes OK But if I slightly modify it: Start-Process -NoNewWindow -FilePath $cmd -Verb RunAs Powershell Or …

Read More
How to prompt to run EXE as different user in powershell

How would I go about running an EXE as a different user? How could I prompt for credentials or atleast ask for the password for a local admin to launch an exe through powershell. I'm having a hard time getting …

Read More