Set administrator privileges to subprocess.check_call() in Python

Question

I call two executables from a python script one which needs Administrator privileges and one which does not need them. Is there any way by which I can set the Administrator

Answer 1

Try this out for entering an administrative password.

import subprocess as sp

sp.check_call(['DoesnotNeedAdminPrivilege.exe'])
prog = sp.Popen(['runas', '/noprofile', '/user:Administrator', 'NeedsAdminPrivilege.exe'],stdin=sp.PIPE)
prog.stdin.write('password')
prog.communicate()

Here are the docs on:

Popen - http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructor

runas - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771525.aspx

if this works will depend on the program NeedsAdminPrivilege.