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Subject:	scripting elevated privilege on Windows 7
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I am dealing with Windows UAC for the first time. From a script, I would
like to launch a process with elevated (administrative) privilege. I
can accept that Windows will pop up a modal dialog box confirming the
elevated privilege.

Is there an existing utility in Cygwin or elsewhere.

An example of what I would like: I have a program named backall that 
I want to execute with administrative privelege. I am looking for some
command xxx that I could invoke from a shell script as
	xxx backall

Does such a utility exist? If I wanted to enhance cygstart to support
this feature, which Microsoft API should I use?

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