Shutdown or Reboot a remote Windows box with remote credentials (Quick Tip)

Quick Tip: Shutdown or Reboot a remote Windows box with remote credentials from the cmd line

Heres the setup, your logged into a workstation and need to reboot a remote box, but your account doesn't have the juice to run the standard shutdown command:

Many people don't know there is a simple flag you can use to pass remote credentials (the acct doesn't need to exist on the local box or even the same domain!) using the runas command:

Success! Remember you can run all sorts of commands both remotely and locally using different credentials using this command.