Re: [Wtr-general] launch broswer as another user ?
I know of two relatively simple means of starting IE under separate processes using different user credentials. Exactly how you do it depends on your requirements and preferences. (1) You can use the Windows RunAs command to start a program under different user credentials. RunAs is well-docmented, you can find more than you want to know about it with a simple internet search. Of course, you have to have the separate user accounts already set up first! : o ) There is a quirk with Windows' RunAs. Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, has refused to put a command in their command-line interface that will allow you to enter a user's password directly. So when you try to run something as a different user (via whatever means), you will be prompted to enter the password manually. Obviously, that creates problems for scripting. Their workaround is the /savecred command-line switch for RunAs. In effect, it lets you run something with another's credentials... once they have been saved by someone who knows that password. A full discussion would take up too much space... you can easily look this one up. Suffice it to say that you can shell from Ruby using RunAs, and start a process under a different user's credentials. While it takes a little preparation (very little), this is MUCH easier than some of the other methods I have seen. Just look up RunAs /savecred on the internet. (2) You can shell to an AutoIt script that uses AutoIt's RunAs command, which takes the username and password as arguments and starts a process under a different user's credentials. We have used both methods and they work. The funny thing is, Microsoft's savecred switch can be a massive security hole... the only practical difference between that and allowing you to script a password is that you have to have the password entered at least once... which is goofy. Obviously there is a way to send the password to the operating system through an API call or some such, because AutoIt does just that. Microsoft: Security through obfuscation. Lonny Eachus == In my case i needed to start up several browsers concurrently and in this scenario, the only way to attach to them reliably and cleanly is to know the process id of each browser. I stole most of the code from Alex Verk, so it wasn't really a lot of coding on my part. If you know of an easier way (Two short lines of code) to help Marco, i'm sure he and others would appreciate seeing it. Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
Re: [Wtr-general] launch broswer as another user ?
I should add that using this method, once you have your IE started, of course you still have to attach to the IE window. Lonny Eachus ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
Re: [Wtr-general] launch broswer as another user ?
Marco wrote:
Hi
has anyone had to come up with a way of launching an instance of ie from
within a script but run as another user context?
I tried using cpau and I can launch a browser using a ruby script. I then run
that script using
cpau -u user -p password -ex cmd /K \launchbrowser.rb params -enc
-file launchbrowser.job
cpau -dec -file launchbrowser.job
whilst this works fine to run the script standalone when I try to run this
script from within a testcase using
puts(Foo1)
exec cpau -dec -file launchbrowser.job
puts(Foo2)
the browser launches but the testcase dosen't run through to completition
drops out to cmd prompt as soon as the exec finishes.
the plan was then to use ie.attach to attach to this browser window
I'm hoping someone else has an easier / better idea to do this sort of thing?
The code below should be a step in the right direction. I have been
using this and expect contribute it to the main watir code base at some
point.
Bret
# based on http://svn.instiki.org/instiki/trunk/test/watir/e2e.rb
# and http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-general/2005-November/004108.html
require 'watir'
class IEProcess
def self.start
startup_info = [68].pack('lx64')
process_info = [0, 0, 0, 0].pack('')
# TODO: make this portable
startup_command = 'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE'
result = Win32API.new('kernel32.dll', 'CreateProcess', 'pplppp',
'l').
call(
nil,
startup_command,
0, 0, 1, 0, 0, '.', startup_info, process_info)
# TODO print the error code, or better yet a text message
raise Failed to start IEXPLORE. if result == 0
process_id = process_info.unpack('')[2]
puts Process ID: #{process_id}
self.new process_id
end
def initialize process_id
@process_id = process_id
end
attr_reader :process_id
def stop
right_to_terminate_process = 1
handle = Win32API.new('kernel32.dll', 'OpenProcess', 'lil', 'l').
call(right_to_terminate_process, 0, @process_id)
Win32API.new('kernel32.dll', 'TerminateProcess', 'll',
'l').call(handle, 0)
end
def window
shell = WIN32OLE.new 'Shell.Application'
while true do
shell.windows.each do |window|
process_id = Watir.process_id_from_hwnd window.hwnd
# puts Window Name: #{window.name}, Process ID: #{process_id}
return window if process_id == @process_id
end
end
end
end
module Watir
def self.process_id_from_hwnd hwnd
pid_info = ' ' * 32
Win32API.new(user32, GetWindowThreadProcessId, 'ip', 'i').
call(hwnd, pid_info)
process_id = pid_info.unpack(L)[0]
end
def IE.new_process
iep = IEProcess.start
ie = IE.bind iep.window
ie.process_id = iep.process_id
ie
end
class IE
def process_id
@process_id ||= Watir.process_id_from_hwnd @ie.hwnd
end
attr_writer :process_id
def kill
iep = IEProcess.new process_id
iep.stop
end
end
end
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