I am a beginner and am trying to understand how to use the runas command in Windows Powershell.
When I type the following command into Powershell:
runas /user:<localmachinename>\administrator cmd
I am asked to enter a password. When I do so, I am told that:
1326: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
Also, when I type this command into Powershell:
runas /user:AdministratorAccountName@ ComputerName
I get:
RUNAS ERROR: Unable to acquire user password
I can't see the password when I type it in. But I have done it multiple times correctly and always get those messages.
Would appreciate some help on this.
Thanks!
Best Answer
You could try
without the backslash before
administrator
. That works for me – when I replaceadministrator
with a valid user name for an administrator on my computer, of course.When it comes to the other command you tried:
it should read
where
ComputerName
is a valid computer name andAdministratorAccountName
is a valid name of a user account.