I need an easy way to let the QA people run chef, they alreay have accounts that are local admins so I wanted a batch file that they can click on that will run chef with admin privileges

the chef documentations suggests using runas

runas /user:Administrator "cmd /C chef-client"

But I don’t want to give the administrator password to the users.

I found this stack overflow posting that worked like a charm

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7044985/how-can-i-auto-elevate-my-batch-file-so-that-it-requests-from-uac-admin-rights

Speficially

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:: Automatically check & get admin rights
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@echo off
CLS 
ECHO.
ECHO =============================
ECHO Running Admin shell
ECHO =============================

:checkPrivileges 
NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL
if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto gotPrivileges ) else ( goto getPrivileges ) 

:getPrivileges 
if '%1'=='ELEV' (shift & goto gotPrivileges)  
ECHO. 
ECHO **************************************
ECHO Invoking UAC for Privilege Escalation 
ECHO **************************************

setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
set "batchPath=%~0"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
ECHO Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" 
ECHO UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", "ELEV", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" 
"%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" 
exit /B 

:gotPrivileges 
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:START
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setlocal & pushd .

REM Run shell as admin (example) - put here code as you like
cmd /k

Just replace cmd /k with your code.