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By default, the calling process (*RunasCs*) will wait until the end of the execution of the spawned process.
If you need to spawn a background or async process, i.e. spawning a reverse shell, you need to set the parameter ``-t timeout`` to ``0``. In this case *RunasCs* won't wait for the end of the newly spawned process execution.

Starting processes with `--function 0` (`CreateProcessAsUserW`) require the `SE_ASSIGNPRIMARYTOKEN_NAME` privileges, which is typically only held by the inbuilt `System` account. One can use [PsExec](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec) and run `PsExec.exe -i -s cmd.exe` to start a command prompt under the `System` account.

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