Official admin check for .bat and .cmd files

Discussion in 'Scripting' started by timesurfer, Aug 8, 2011.

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  1. Compo

    Compo MDL Member

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    #21 Compo, Aug 10, 2011
    You should receive an "ERROR: Access is denied." unless you are running Elevated. This error is output to STDERR, which is how we can catch it in the syntax I used.
     
  2. timesurfer

    timesurfer MDL Developer

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    #22 timesurfer, Aug 15, 2011
    Last edited: Aug 15, 2011
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    Worlds coolest batch admin check :worthy:

    Betcha everybody puts this in their batch's

    I have put your code demonstration in first post of batch repository

    Feel free to teach any level of batch coding and I'll put in that first post

    Thanks
     
  3. danyo1337

    danyo1337 MDL Junior Member

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    #23 danyo1337, Aug 24, 2011
    Last edited by a moderator: Apr 20, 2017
    I found this snippet a while back in a script that allows concurrent remote desktop sessions and changed it a bit.

    Code:
    SET HasAdminRights=0
FOR /F %%i IN ('WHOAMI /PRIV /NH') DO (
IF "%%i"=="SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege" SET HasAdminRights=1
)

IF NOT %HasAdminRights%==1 (
"%~dp0Error.vbs"
EXIT
)
    Error.vbs
    Code:
    MsgBox "This script must be run with Administrator privileges!", 16, "Error!"
     
  4. racky29

    racky29 MDL Senior Member

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    #24 racky29, Apr 1, 2012
    Last edited by a moderator: Apr 20, 2017
    batch file auto admin uac prompt

    found this script to give automatic elevated admin privilege

    Code:
    
@Echo off
:: Check for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

:: If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
Echo Requesting administrative privileges...
goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
Echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
Echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"

"%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
Exit /B

:gotAdmin
if exist "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ( Del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" )
Pushd "%CD%"
CD /D "%~dp0"

REM <YOUR BATCH SCRIPT HERE>
ECHO.
ECHO You should have had a UAC Prompt
ECHO and now you have Admin Rights
ECHO.
pause
    copy that code to a txt file and name it testadmin.cmd
    and run it

    got it from here, http://ss64.com/nt/runas.html
     
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