Running Programs As Root In Non Root Shell (Powershell)

Question

I'm new to python and I need to log in to a website but I can only find articles and videos that talks about the POST method form login and I can't figure out how to login in a form that uses a GET method. This code I believe is for the POST method isn't it? The website I want to log in uses get method

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

headers = {
    'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36'
}

login_data = {
    'name': '<username>',
    'pass': '<password>',
    'form_id': 'new_login_form',
    'op': 'Login'
}

with requests.Session() as s:
    url = 'https://www.codechef.com/'
    r = s.get(url, headers=headers)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html5lib')
    login_data['form_build_id'] = soup.find('input', attrs={'name': 'form_build_id'})['value']
    r = s.post(url, data=login_data, headers=headers)
    print(r.content)

Solution

If the current console is not elevated and the operation you're trying to do requires elevated privileges then you can start powershell with the "Run as administrator" option

PS> Start-Process C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Verb runAs

Source: StackOverflow

Comments

[Seth Wilson]

Unfortunitely it said it could not find the find the file cmd.exe, even when I typed in the entire directory. This is truly strange to me.

[Seth Wilson]

I got the error "Start-Process : The system could not find the environment option tat was entered." I assume that occurred because of my non-existent %WINDIR% environment variable.

[nixda]

Correct. In your case you have to specify the full path for "Powershell": "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"

[LawrenceC]

try c:\windows\system32\runas.exe /user:Administrator c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

[Seth Wilson]

Alright I filled in the whole directory now but it still did not work. It did actually work though without the arguments (-Verb and runAs) you listed.

[nixda]

I corrected a stupid mistake. See my edit, it should work now.

[The Klatu]

I'm sorry but I figured out the stupidity of my question 1 minute after I posted it. I used the code that I sent before changing it to fit my needs, now that I'm logged in tho I have to figure out how to stay logged in and go to the page I need to scrape. Do you have any suggestions?

[Donatien]

Since you are scraping, your authentication is probably done through a cookie that the request session should keep and add to any further request. So I think it should work on it's own. You can check if you have a cookie after login by printing s.cookie.