I'm currently building an app in Electron/NodeJS and am at a point where I'll need to elevate privileges on Windows to do a specific task (only Win7+ are a concern). How can I do this programmatically? I'll even take executing a bash script if it gets the job done. Thanks!

I'm currently building an app in Electron/NodeJS and am at a point where I'll need to elevate privileges on Windows to do a specific task (only Win7+ are a concern). How can I do this programmatically? I'll even take executing a bash script if it gets the job done. Thanks!

• javascript
• node.js
• windows
• electron

2 Answers 2

In order to UAC elevate, use the runas module: https://www.npmjs./package/runas

I did some file writes using use node-powershell module :node-powershell

 const ps = new Shell({
    executionPolicy: 'Bypass',
    noProfile: true
});

ps.addCommand(`Start-Process -WindowStyle hidden cmd -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList '/c mkdir "C:\\Program Files\\foo"'`);