I need to launch an external program, but I'm hitting a roadblock because
that external program requires elevated privileges. Normally I would just
do this:
require('child_process').spawn('C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1131128-16232-bid56z__some_installer.exe');
But this throws an error because the external program requires elevated
privileges. Some have suggested that I use the "runas" command, but I
haven't had much success yet. No error is thrown, but the external program
doesn't run either.
require('child_process').spawn('runas',
['/user:my_machine_name\\administrator',
'C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1131130-18300-1wol3cr__some_installer.exe']);
I've also been trying the node-window module's "elevate" method. It seems
to use batch and VB scripts to do its magic, and it comes very close to
solving my problem. The issue with this solution is that the child
process's "close" and "exit" events seem to trigger immediately, and I lose
all communication with the child process. I presume this is because the
child process is aware of only the batch cmd or vbs and not my actual
external program.
For the moment, I'm at a dead end. I'm very much hoping someone has an
ingenious idea.
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