Elevate cmd to admin with command prompt?

Question

Is there anyway to enable administrator access instead of having to right click command prompt and run as administrator?

I tried runas /user:administrator CMD (prompts for password) net user administrator /active:yes (System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied.) runas /user:administrator luaexec.exe -w -f cmd.exe /k

This is on my local machine running windows 8 and have no passwords on any accounts

Solution

You can't change the permission from a current CMD.exe. You have to restart it. This is a Windows limitation. I use NirCmd with the elevate switch to start tools elevated.

Comments

[Admin]

Wait... Do you want to elevate the current cmd or open a new, elevated one?

[Admin]

I think there is a local security policy/directive that doesn't allow administrator logins nor executions for account with no passwords. Maybe that is your problem? Saddly, I don't know what directive that is, I suppose it should be at secpol.msc. If you find it, please, report.

[Admin]

Is this method valid for you? superuser.com/questions/728810/…

[Admin]

I have used this other method, too, but it is shell programming. You could make a .cmd to call it with your desired parameters, if any: stackoverflow.com/questions/5944180/…

[Admin]

@Plasma - within the current cmd

[Admin]

@nhat That is not possible, see this superuser question.

[Admin]

Is there any 'sudo' command for Windows?

[Admin]

Try gsudo: superuser.com/a/1499989/45898

[Spring Page]

Unfortunately I'm trying to run a script to update IP addresses and what's preventing the command from executing is the cmd.exe needs to be in admin. It would be time consuming to go to every computer to do this.

[Suncatcher]

How to run this from usual (non-admin) CMD? Is it possible?

[mdcoder85]

No it is not possible. psexec installs temporary service with -h and it requires admin privileges to do that... It is chick and egg problem. Just use Ctrl + Shift + Enter from Windows search results.