Re: scripting elevated privilege on Windows 7

2010-04-16 Thread DavidArnstein
Thank you Robert Pendell! I wrote this shell script. Any suggestions for optimization? #!/bin/bash if [ $# -eq 1 ] then echo "Usage: elev program arg1 arg2 ..." exit 1 fi prog="$1" shift exec cygstart --action=runas `which "$prog"` "$@" -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

scripting elevated privilege on Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread DavidArnstein
I am dealing with Windows UAC for the first time. From a script, I would like to launch a process with elevated (administrative) privilege. I can accept that Windows will pop up a modal dialog box confirming the elevated privilege. Is there an existing utility in Cygwin or elsewhere. An example o