Add a utility function to run a process as an arbitrary user

- Only for windows
- Needed in certain upgrade scenarios, useful for all

BUG=32474
TEST= unit tests included


Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/555192

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@37682 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/base/process_util.h b/base/process_util.h
index 1dc01df..99f68c0 100644
--- a/base/process_util.h
+++ b/base/process_util.h
@@ -140,6 +140,20 @@ void CloseSuperfluousFds(const base::InjectiveMultimap& saved_map);
 //       that it doesn't leak!
 bool LaunchApp(const std::wstring& cmdline,
                bool wait, bool start_hidden, ProcessHandle* process_handle);
+
+// Runs the given application name with the given command line as if the user
+// represented by |token| had launched it. The caveats about |cmdline| and
+// |process_handle| explained for LaunchApp above apply as well.
+//
+// Whether the application is visible on the interactive desktop depends on
+// the token belonging to an interactive logon session.
+//
+// To avoid hard to diagnose problems, this function internally loads the
+// environment variables associated with the user and if this operation fails
+// the entire call fails as well.
+bool LaunchAppAsUser(UserTokenHandle token, const std::wstring& cmdline,
+                     bool start_hidden, ProcessHandle* process_handle);
+
 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
 // Runs the application specified in argv[0] with the command line argv.
 // Before launching all FDs open in the parent process will be marked as