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Dustin
Dustin

Reputation: 6307

Elevate NodeJS/Electron process on Windows

I'm currently building an app in Electron/NodeJS and am at a point where I'll need to elevate privileges on Windows to do a specific task (only Win7+ are a concern). How can I do this programmatically? I'll even take executing a bash script if it gets the job done. Thanks!

Upvotes: 8

Views: 5664

Answers (2)

yashodha_h
yashodha_h

Reputation: 1014

I did some file writes using use node-powershell module :node-powershell

 const ps = new Shell({
    executionPolicy: 'Bypass',
    noProfile: true
});

ps.addCommand(`Start-Process -WindowStyle hidden cmd -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList '/c mkdir "C:\\Program Files\\foo"'`);

Upvotes: 2

Ana Betts
Ana Betts

Reputation: 74692

In order to UAC elevate, use the runas module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/runas

Upvotes: 5

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