CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windows
Sydney
Sydney

Reputation: 12212

Running a script using the runas command

I need to run an install script as an administrator. I tried several things but none of them works

runas /user:Administrator install.bat

The shell asks for the password, then opens a new shell windows, and closes it right away without executing the script

runas /user:Administrator "call install.bat"

The shell asks for the password, then failed with an error

Unable to run - call install.bat
2: The system cannot find the file specified

What I don’t understand is that if I run the command call install.bat without the runas part, the script is ran. It failed for the commands that need admin credentials but that’s expected.

I have 2 questions:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 10145

Answers (2)

0xC0000022L
0xC0000022L

Reputation: 21259

Use cmd.exe which is your vehicle to interpret .cmd and .bat files.

runas /user:Administrator "cmd.exe /K install.bat"

or

runas /user:Administrator "cmd.exe /C install.bat"

check cmd.exe /? for /K and /C.

Note: /C is more likely what you want.

Side-note after your comment: runas has a /env option:

/env              to use current environment instead of user's.

Upvotes: 2

ebutusov
ebutusov

Reputation: 573

Batch files are executed by the interpreter (cmd). In order to run script in privileged mode, you need cmd with raised priviledges. Try use cmd instead of call.

Upvotes: -1

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