Running a PowerShell script as administrator without typing in passwords

Question

I wrote a script that will switch between having a computer connect via Wi-Fi or wired Internet simply by running a batch file. I wrote this because I don\'t like having to

Answer 1

You can start a new, elevated PowerShell process to run your script e.g.:

Start-Process PowerShell -verb runas -ArgumentList '-noexit','-File','path-to-script'

If you don't want the PowerShell window to hang around then get rid of the '-noexit' but for debugging the launch of your script, it is useful.

If you had access to an admin account username/password, you could do this:

# Capture encrypted password once and store to file
$passwd = Read-Host "Enter password" -AsSecureString
$encpwd = ConvertFrom-SecureString $passwd
$encpwd > $path\password.bin

# Afterwards always use this to start the script
$encpwd = Get-Content $path\password.bin
$passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString $encpwd
$cred = new-object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential 'domain\username',$passwd
Start-Process PowerShell -Cred $cred -ArgumentList '-noexit','-File','path-to-script'