How do I spawn a child process as a different user on Windows?

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Since libuv does not support child_process.spawn's uid option on Windows, how can you spawn a child process that runs as a different user?

Nuray Altin · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-27 10:04:24Z

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Your best shot is to use "runas" command line tool for Windows. "runas /?" for details.

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ExxKA · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-19 10:18:20Z

You can not. It specifically says in the documentation that there is no option available for that on windows. http://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process_setuid_id

But if all you want to do is start as admin, because you need to bind to a privileged port, then there are other smarter ways of doing that, which will let you use a privileged port with a normal user.

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