Vscode: Running a command with administrator rights?

[Dragod]

• VSCode Version: 1.2.0
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open terminal
2. Npm install -g whateverpack

npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! code -4048
npm ERR! syscall mkdir

How do I run command with administrator rights?

[Tyriar]

It should work just like a non-administrator cmd, you can apparently run one off admin commands like:

runas.exe /savecred /user:administrator "%sysdrive%\testScripts\testscript1.ps1" 

See http://stackoverflow.com/a/12401075/1156119

[Dragod]

Well, I just thought of running visual studio code as administrator. Did work without running any weird command :)

[ctsstc]

If someone is like me being confused why this isn't working, one caveat I ran into was that I had to close all instances of VS Code to get this to work first.

[LPsyCongroo]

So I tried a bunch of these solutions and none of them really worked for me. I had to use regular old command line with admin rights to get it working. I didn't try it with powershell though - I use git bash as my default terminal for visual studio. Is there something else you have to do to run git bash with admin rights?

[DaveyEdwards]

@LPsyCongroo Did you try running vscode as administrator? I was having problems with it until doing that. The terminal it is using is powershell

[OLayemii]

Use the command from cmd while running cmd with Administrator privileges, this wroks for me on windows.
Linux add a "sudo" before the command!

[LPsyCongroo]

@DaveyEdwards Yes, I tried doing that (using a number of ways). I think the problem was with Git Bash specifically - I had trouble running the stand alone terminal with admin rights as well. I got it working eventually just using cmd with admin rights and I think others on this thread were using powershell. I just personally like Git Bash and was hoping to be able to use my preferred in-editor terminal to install my NPM packages.

[OLayemii]

Yes the problem is with GitBash i noticed earlier too.