Win-Sudo

A windows implementation of sudo inspired by the Linux sudo command (v1.0).

https://kn327.medium.com/win-sudo-the-struggle-for-admin-80f5895725e7

Installation

To install, simply build the application and find the executable in the bin/Debug or bin/Release folder

Copy the executable to somewhere within your PATH env variable (optional).

Usage

sudo Opens an elevated command shell in the current process.

sudo [options] {command} [arguments]

[options]

properties

Properties appear in key value pair syntax {property} {value}

• -stdout will redirect the StdOut to the file specified (using this will prevent the stdout temp file from being deleted)
• -stderr will redirect the StdErr to the file specified (using this will prevent the stderr temp file from being deleted)

flags

• --save-temp will prevent the application from deleting the temp files after the process completed
• --show-window will display a new window for the elevated command prompt to allow you to write your own code manually, when this flag is enabled the output is not redirected anywhere.
• --debug will output debug lines detailing the commands being passed to the sub-process

Examples

$> sudo --debug whoami /groups

$> sudo whoami /groups | find "12288" && echo elevated || echo not elevated

$> sudo --show-window cmd

Who do I talk to?

• kom@ohmvision.com