It's sudo, for Windows. Contribute to microsoft/sudo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Taki Elias

Claude

Community Picks is a section on daily.dev where our community members share the most interesting and valuable content they've discovered online. From insightful articles to handy tools, every post is a gem curated by our dedicated coomunity. To contribute to Community Picks, you need to have at least 250 reputation points, ensuring that only active and trusted members can share their finds.

Community Picks

Sudo for Windows allows users to run elevated commands directly from unelevated terminal windows. It is not a fork of the Unix/Linux sudo project and has its own specific implementation for Windows. Documentation for the project can be found at aka.ms/sudo-docs.

microsoft/sudo: It's sudo, for Windows

I’m completing a windows package manager. I hope it’ll make windows even easier for developers.

This is the most cursed thing I’ve ever seen.

Why does sudo need to have such a big codebase? All you need to do is (with C#) make a Process with the verb runas to launch as elevated.

Didn’t even know this exists that’s cool!

Bruh, Microsoft at least should have some sort of bash integration to windows itself 3 years ago. Still another reason I hate Microsoft