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user1954762
user1954762

Reputation: 157

Run script as administrator passing arguments

I am trying to run one command as administrator but I am getting error. Below is the code.

VBScript:

MyPath ="C:\Destination"
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")  
objShell.ShellExecute "C:\batchScript.cmd " & MyPath &, "", "", "runas", 1

batchScript.cmd:

echo %1
psfile %1 -c

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1209

Answers (2)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200553

Wild guess (since you didn't deem it necessary to actually show the error message): you're using the concatenation operator (&) without something to actually concatenate:

objShell.ShellExecute "C:\batchScript.cmd " & MyPath &, "", "", "runas", 1
'                                                    ^

and you're also passing arguments as part of the command.

Remove the spurious concatenation operator and pass the argument as an actual argument:

objShell.ShellExecute "C:\batchScript.cmd", MyPath, "", "runas", 1

Also, $args[0] is not a valid variable in a batch file.

Upvotes: 1

Oliver Friedrich
Oliver Friedrich

Reputation: 9250

This is not my work, but I found it really a nice peace of code:

@echo off
:: ------- Self-elevating.bat --------------------------------------
@whoami /groups | find "S-1-16-12288" > nul && goto :admin
set "ELEVATE_CMDLINE=cd /d "%~dp0" & call "%~f0" %*"
findstr "^:::" "%~sf0">temp.vbs
cscript //nologo temp.vbs & del temp.vbs & exit /b

::: Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
::: Set objWshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
::: Set objWshProcessEnv = objWshShell.Environment("PROCESS")
::: strCommandLine = Trim(objWshProcessEnv("ELEVATE_CMDLINE"))
::: objShell.ShellExecute "cmd", "/c " & strCommandLine, "", "runas"
:admin -------------------------------------------------------------
@echo Running as elevated user.
@echo Script file : %~f0
@echo Arguments   : %*
@echo Working dir : %cd%

Use it as header for your CMD and it will do the rest.

Upvotes: 3

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