Where does #RequireAdmin go?

[mr-es335]

Good day,
I hope that the day finds you well!

Q1: May I ascertain where exactly where #RequireAdmin is to be placed within a script?

Q2: How often is #RequireAdmin to be deployed?

Thank you for your time...appreciated!

 

[Jos]

3 hours ago, mr-es335 said:

Q1: May I ascertain where exactly where #RequireAdmin is to be placed within a script?

Somewhere at the top is preferable for clearity, but anywhere will work.

 

3 hours ago, mr-es335 said:

Q2: How often is #RequireAdmin to be deployed?

Not sure what that means but AutoIt simply restarts itself with elivated rights when encountered and no running as admin yet.... ergo: One time max if needed. 

[mr-es335]

Is that per script, or just once during a system boot?

[argumentum]

1 hour ago, mr-es335 said:

Is that per script, or just once during a system boot?

On the script that you run. That script only. Will not work if in an #include.
Every time you run it, it will ask for admin rights. System boot or not.

[InnI]

8 hours ago, argumentum said:

Will not work if in an #include

Strange. It works for me.

1.au3

#RequireAdmin
ConsoleWrite("" & @CRLF)

2.au3

#include "1.au3"
MsgBox(0, "", "IsAdmin : " & IsAdmin())

 

[argumentum]

...well, look at that !. I thought that it wouldn't.

Thanks for the correction @InnI  

[argumentum]

..just did the test myself. Better add only in the main script as otherwise the Wrapper that runs in SciTE is not gonna know and will not behave as expected.

[ioa747]

It is not working properly.

#include "1.au3"

for $i = 1 To 10
    ConsoleWrite("$i=" & $i & @CRLF)
Next

MsgBox(0, "", "IsAdmin : " & IsAdmin())

 

[argumentum]

..it is working properly, just not in SciTE.
SciTE reads the script ( the main script ) and if #RequireAdmin is found, it does it's thing to send to the user level running SciTE, via IPC.
AutoIt3, will read all the includes, do it's thing, and if #RequireAdmin is found ( after loading all the related files ) it will request a RunAs.

The question is: who in their right mind would place #RequireAdmin in an include. And the answer is obvious.

The other question is: if the answer is obvious, does it require a post to ask what it is obviously doing ?

I just woke up to the "what if", due to this post, as I would never place a #RequireAdmin anywhere other than the main script because, why would anyone do that. 🤷‍♂️

[mr-es335]

Hello,

All of my scripts look as the following:

; -----------------------------------------------
#RequireAdmin
; -----------------------------------------------
#include <NameOfInlcude>
; -----------------------------------------------
Opt("MustDeclareVars", 1)
; -----------------------------------------------
NameOfFunction()
; -----------------------------------------------
Func NameOfFunction()
EndFunc   ;==>NameOfFunction
; -----------------------------------------------

Is this correct...or not?