Top 10 Shell Sudo Projects

SUDO_KILLER

8 2,096 8.8 Shell

A tool designed to exploit a privilege escalation vulnerability in the sudo program on Unix-like systems. It takes advantage of a specific misconfiguration or flaw in sudo to gain elevated privileges on the system, essentially allowing a regular user to execute commands as the root user.
sudo-touchid

1 494 0.0 Shell

 Permanent TouchID support 👆 for `sudo`. (by artginzburg)

Project mention: Magic Keyboard with backlight, USB-C and Touch ID. Do you want to see this one? | /r/mac | 2023-06-17

True. However you can modify 1 file to allow Touch ID to work when you need sudo access. I just Google it again & found this

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win-sudo

1 177 3.2 Shell

Add `sudo` command to Git Bash

Project mention: Sudo for Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-08

And if you need the Sudo interface there are wrappers like https://github.com/purplesyringa/win-sudo.
If the elevation prompt would show the elevated executable and not the wrapper, that would be news...

kubectl-sudo

2 162 0.0 Shell

Run kubernetes commands with the security privileges of another user
CVE-2023-22809-sudoedit-privesc

1 130 10.0 Shell

A script to automate privilege escalation with CVE-2023-22809 vulnerability
zsh-toggle-command-prefix

4 17 0.0 Shell

Zsh widget to toggle a prefix on a command

Project mention: renaming files | /r/zsh | 2023-05-12

That's not provided by with Zsh by default, but after Fish added that function, I wrote a generalized equivalent which I've released here.

helm-sudo

1 14 3.2 Shell

A Helm plugin for running commands with the security privileges of another user
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sudo-kubeconfig

1 6 0.0 Shell

Create a sudo kubeconfig for your current kubernetes context
login-alert-bot

1 5 10.0 Shell

A simple Bash shell script to send messages to Telegram messenger using the Curl command. Then you will use this script to send a notification on every ssh login into your server.
Steal-Command

3 1 1.0 Shell

This short command automatically finds and installs packages from Pacman, AUR, or Flatpak.

Project mention: CoolRune - An easy way to setup Artix Linux automatically | /r/coolgithubprojects | 2023-06-22

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

Shell Sudo related posts

renaming files

1 project | /r/zsh | 12 May 2023
And that's a fact

2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 28 Feb 2023
KUBERNETES LEAST PRIVILEGE IMPLEMENTATION USING THE GOOGLE CLOUD AS AN EXAMPLE

3 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2022
Every single time

5 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 18 Jan 2021
If you use shells other than Bash, why?

3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 9 Jan 2021
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Sudo projects in Shell? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	SUDO_KILLER	2,096
2	sudo-touchid	494
3	win-sudo	177
4	kubectl-sudo	162
5	CVE-2023-22809-sudoedit-privesc	130
6	zsh-toggle-command-prefix	17
7	helm-sudo	14
8	sudo-kubeconfig	6
9	login-alert-bot	5
10	Steal-Command	1