CMD automation \ how to run process as a different user

[Mateusz_Koper]

Hi

I’m looking for a tip, how to run the process from cmd or can be powershell as well as a different user ?. Is there any activity in UiPath which can help me to perform this action ?

[chenderson (Cary Henderson)]

Good morning Mateusz,

Hopefully the solution on this post will help you out:

While running powershell using invoke activity it throws exception "windows powershell run as administrator"

Hi @Mahashankaripazhani Supported by this thread, I was able to make a simple process: [image] [image] However, running this will prompt the UAC (which would need to be disabled for this to work, which is highly not recommanded). Actually, there is a solution to it (credit to out of our awesome uipathers). See his explanation below: I use the activity invoking a script. If the script tries to invoke: Start-Process notepad.exe -Verb runAs then the UAC dialog will appear …