How to force my AutoIt script to require administrator privileges?

[tfabris]

I've googled and forum-searched a bit for this, and I can't seem to find exactly the right answer. Can anyone help?

My AutoIt script does, among other things, some launching of some third-party programs that perform specialized tasks that I can't do from within AutoIt. Those programs require administrator privileges in order to get their work done. If those programs don't have administrator privileges when I shell out to them, then they will silently fail to accomplish their tasks. I want my AutoIt script (well, actually the EXE that I'm eventually going to compile and distribute from it) to require administrator privileges of its own before it will allow the user to continue.

Please don't reply with instructions on how to make a shortcut to my AutoIt program, and then tick the "Administrator" tickybox in the shortcut, or describe how I can right-click on my AutoIt program and say "Run as administrator". I know how to do those things! In fact, that's how I could check to be sure that setting the AutoIt script to Admin privileges would work for my purposes. No, when I googled and forum-searched for this, that was what all the search results said: "Make a shortcut"... or "use the command-line RunAs..." etc... That's not what I'm asking here.

I'm asking, how, within the AutoIt script code itself, how can I force it so that when a user runs my AutoIt program without admin privileges, that it will force the OS to put up the UAC box and ask the user if it's OK to allow my program to make changes to the system?

Alternatively, if that can't be done, how can I, within AutoIt, check to see whether my program is currently running under administrator privileges, thus allowing me to put up my own error box and terminate my program?

There was one search result that looked promising. The result talked about adding this line to my code:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Res_requestedExecutionLevel=requireAdministrator

But when I put that line at the top of my code, there doesn't appear to be any change in the way the program runs. What is that line from, how is it supposed to work, and what am I doing wrong about implementing it?

Are there any other ways to accomplish what I want?

[BrewManNH]

Try #RequireAdmin, and to check if the current user is an admin, try IsAdmin(), see the help file for anything that doesn't make sense.

[tfabris]

Try #RequireAdmin, and to check if the current user is an admin, try IsAdmin(), see the help file for anything that doesn't make sense.

Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much!

So simple, I can't believe I didn't find it in my initial search. Feel kind of bad for bothering the forum with something so simple.

[AdmiralAlkex]

The AutoIt3Wrapper is part of SciTE4AutoIt3, it is not included in the "lite" SciTE that you get in the AutoIt download. You should definitely install it if you're writing AutoIt code. Lots of other goodies to, check the site or just try it

Edited May 30, 2012 by AdmiralAlkex