Run Powershell as administrator with Terminal Sublime Text 3

Question

How can I run PowerShell as administrator with Terminal in Sublime Text 3?

Here is the default configuration:

{
    // The command to execute for the terminal, leave blank for the OS default
    // See https://github.com/wbond/sublime_terminal#examples for examples
    "terminal": "",

    // A list of default parameters to pass to the terminal, this can be
    // overridden by passing the "parameters" key with a list value to the args
    // dict when calling the "open_terminal" or "open_terminal_project_folder"
    // commands
    "parameters": [],

    // An environment variables changeset. Default environment variables used for the
    // terminal are inherited from sublime. Use this mapping to overwrite/unset. Use
    // null value to indicate that the environment variable should be unset.
    "env": {}
}

Answer 1

Option 1: Run Sublime Text as administrator. The process started by the Terminal plugin will run under the administrator user as well. Be careful—third-party plugins will also have admin privileges.

Option 2: Configure the Terminal plugin to start a new PowerShell instance that runs as an administrator:

"terminal": "powershell.exe",
"parameters": [
    "-WindowStyle", "Hidden", 
    "-Command", "Start-Process", "-Verb", "RunAs", "powershell.exe",
    "-ArgumentList", "'-NoExit', '-Command', Set-Location, \"'$PWD'\""
],

This configuration launches a command that restarts PowerShell under an admin user. We manually reset the working directory because the new instance starts in a different process space. When UAC is enabled, we'll need to confirm execution within the UAC prompt that appears to escalate privileges. If desired, we can disable the prompt for a specific program.