Down8 0 Posted January 28, 2001 Quick scenario: My whole family has logins on my machine, but my brother is the only who ever uses it. Now, he was logged in, surfing the web or something. I wanted to show him a video, or a picture or something, but he doesn't have permissions to get to my stuff. It would suck to log-off the 'Net, log me in, change permissions, log him back in, log back onto the 'Net, just to show him a video. In *nix, there is the 'su' command [switch user], which will allow you to gain the permissions of another system user, which would have solved my problem. Is there such a command in Windows? Thanks in advance, -bZj Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted January 28, 2001 Highlight an executable. Hold Down Shift. Right-click on executable. Choose Run As. Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted January 28, 2001 Highlight an executable. Hold Down Shift. Right-click on executable. Choose Run As. Share this post Link to post
Ekstreme 0 Posted January 30, 2001 Down8, this doesn't give an answer to your question, it's only a tip if you don't know it already. If you are using a dialup device, you can logon a different user and not have to disconnect your net connection. To do this open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, right click and select New -> String Value. Name it 'KeepRasConnections' (minus the ' '), hit enter and give it the value 1. reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out Share this post Link to post
bug_666 0 Posted February 2, 2001 can't u just use the "Run as..." to launch whatever player u use with your l/p, browse into your folder(when u use RunAs, the program will have the permissions from our acct.), and open the file? Share this post Link to post
bug_666 0 Posted February 2, 2001 Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ekstreme:Down8, this doesn't give an answer to your question, it's only a tip if you don't know it already. If you are using a dialup device, you can logon a different user and not have to disconnect your net connection. To do this open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, right click and select New -> String Value. Name it 'KeepRasConnections' (minus the ' '), hit enter and give it the value 1. reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out </font> yeah yeah yeah, but wouldn't logging off close the program that uses the connection? Share this post Link to post
Down8 0 Posted February 2, 2001 Thanks for the help - I had heard of the 'Run as...' command before, but didn't know how to get there. As for the dial-up connection, I'll give that a try, but as stated, logging-off will probably close the little program that keeps me on - gotta love free I'net service. Thanks all, -bZj Share this post Link to post