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

I found a nasty workaround

    f = open('test.cmd', 'w+')
    f.write("execute.exe")
    f.close()

    os.system("runas /savecred /profile /user:Administrator \"test.cmd\"")

or you can use subprocess

Answer 2

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.