cmda.txt

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| CMDA sudo for Windows |
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This is a Windows Batch file to provide a well known sudo console command like solution for Windows 
without the use of third party software. It is very useful for everyone who is using Windows as a 
standard user without administrative privileges. This script just encapsulates the CMD console 
command with the RUNAS console command. So the script acts as an ordinary CMD console command with 
all its known features.

Often you cannot run applications or execute console commands as standard user because you need 
administrative privileges. In this case you need to switch to an user with administrative 
privileges to do your work. Here CMDA is the solution because it runs any application or executes 
any console command passed to the script with administrative privileges. So you won't need to 
switch the user account anymore.

This script is called CMDA because it just executes the CMD console command with administrative 
privileges. It takes all the parameters that are supported by CMD console command and passes them 
through to the CMD console command itself. All given parameters will be respected during execution 
of the CMDA script. Anyway in order to using this script you will be asked for the Administrator 
password which is needed.


Setup
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To use this script you need to save it either as BAT or as CMD file respectively and place it 
inside a directory which must be present in the path environment on your computer.


Usage
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As an example to be able to change the firewall settings in the Control Panel of Windows) you need 
to run this script as follows: 

	CMDA /C START firewall.cpl 

Here the /C parameter closes the appearing console window immediatelly after a successfull 
returning of the script. With the START console command the given application (the firewall 
settings in this example) will be opened in a new process, so the console window in the background 
is not needed anymore and can be closed. This way you are able to create a shortcut for any purpose 
you can imagine.


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Related resources:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file
* http://noadmin.de/cmda-quasi-sudo-fuer-windows/