Force admin

[Richienb]

For modules that require administrator permissions to function, for example, to execute a restricted shell command, there should be an easy way to check for elevated permissions and restart the application with them if needed.

[denizariyan]

You can use this package to check for admin permissions and act according to the result.

[Richienb]

is-elevated already does that. I'm looking for a package that automatically restarts the script with elevated permissions.

[fregante]

I think "restart the script" depends a lot on how it was started in the first place. Is it ./scripts.js? node script.js? npm run script? What if it was run with specific ENV or through other commands?

Trying to restart itself might be problematic or make wrong assumptions.

[denizariyan]

I agree, restart the script is just too broad.

I believe it's better to implement it on a project basis rather than a package.