Pythin createprocessasuser -- OpenProcessToken, 'Access is denied.'

[Ivan Voras]

Pete Fong wrote:

> I am a beginner with Python. I want to write a program as "runas" in
> Windows XP.

> handel=win32security.LogonUser('administrator','domain','pwd',win32con.LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,win32con.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT)


IIRC, you can't use these win32 calls if you don't hav e appropriate rights. 
Only administrators and backup users can do impersonation (see msdn or such 
for details).

(I think Explorer gets around it by delegating the impersonation to some 
system service).