Sudo for Windows

• sudo

  6 3,733 6.0 PowerShell

  It's sudo, for Windows (by microsoft)

  

It's not their first time. They've done it with curl: they made an alias to their own program not supporting the same feature set and it inevitably backfired [1]. sudo is a complex program with a lot of different options. From what I see, "sudo for Windows" is pretty basic. In comparison, sudo's man page [3] is much longer than "sudo for Windows"'s entire source code [3]. It could get bigger, but it would take time, and as people from MS said here, it's never going to be compatible because of how Windows works differently.

While I understand picking a familiar name, sudo is certainly not the only player, there's also doas. This shows people can adapt to another name and another would have seemed more appropriate.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershe...

[2] https://linux.die.net/man/8/sudo

[3] https://github.com/microsoft/sudo/blob/main/scripts/sudo.ps1

• PowerShell

  397 43,290 9.6 C#

  PowerShell for every system!

  

This smells like when PowerShell aliased curl and wget to a completely different command, with incompatible arguments.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

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• gsudo

  46 4,833 8.4 C#

  Sudo for Windows

Well, sudo for Windows has been a thing for, like, a few years now?... https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

Not sure if this is the same thing, but this definitely should have shipped with the very first implementation of "oh, sure, you're an Administrator, but not really, since we're ignoring that bit" a.k.a. User Account Control.

That would have saved about a metric ton of misguided "here's how to turn off UAC" tutorials, but, ehm, yeah, anything to inject some life into the moribund Windows Insiders Program (the one where https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/ proudly headlines "What’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2023"), right?

• psutils

  2 544 1.3 PowerShell

  Command line utilities written in Powershell

I already use https://github.com/lukesampson/psutils which has a sudo.ps1, which I install via scoop (I know that's a mouthful, but I just install scoop and run `scoop install sudo`). I used it from powershell literally just before I opened this article (after copy-pasting a password, I copy some random text laying around in the browser, like "com", then run `sudo restart-service -name 'cbdhsvc*'` to clear the clipboard). There is a UAC prompt, but it's perfectly adequate for interactive work.

• node-runas

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  Discontinued Run command synchronously (with Administrator privilege)

  

• win-sudo

  1 177 3.2 Shell

  Add `sudo` command to Git Bash

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...

• caffeinate

  1 0 5.0 C++

Do caffeinate next!

That reminds me, I have a half-written implementation here:

https://github.com/AustinWise/caffeinate

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• sudo

  47 1,089 9.5 C

  Utility to execute a command as another user

  

Side note that I've always found interesting: sudo is almost entirely maintained by one dude: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

• winstall

  33 1,061 7.8 JavaScript

  A web app for browsing and installing Windows Package Manager apps.

  

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