How to run 'sudo' command in windows [duplicate]

Answer 1

I've created wsudo, an open-source sudo-like CLI tool for Windows to run programs or commands with elevated right, in the context of the current directory. It's available as a Chocolatey package.

I use it a lot for stuff like configuring build agents, admin things like sfc /scannow, dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth or simply for installing/updating my local Chocolatey packages. Use at your own risk.

Installation

choco install wsudo

Chocolatey must be already installed.

Purpose

wsudo is a Linux sudo-like tool for Windows to invoke a program with elevated rights (as Administrator) from a non-admin shell command prompt and keeping its current directory.

This implementation doesn't depend on the legacy Windows Script Host (CScript). Instead, it uses a helper PowerShell 5.1 script that invokes "Start-Process -Wait -Verb runAs ..." cmdlet. Your system most likely already has PowerShell 5.x installed, otherwise you'll be offered to install it as a dependency.

Usage

wsudo runs a program or an inline command with elevated rights in the current directory. Examples:

wsudo .\myAdminScript.bat 
wsudox "del C:\Windows\Temp\*.* && pause"
wasudo cup all -y
wasudox start notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 

For more details, visit the GitHub repro.

Answer 2

I think I tried steps below after doing some research & succeeded

1.Install scoop using powershell 3 (iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')) 2. do scoop install --global sudo 3. make sure paths (C:\Users\\scoop\shims & C:\ProgramData\scoop\shims) added in environmental path variable.

Answer 3

To just run a command as admin in a non-elevated Powershell, you can use Start-Process directly, with the right options, particularly -Verb runas.

It's a lot more convoluted than sudo, particularly because you can't just re-use the previous command with an additional option. You need to specify the arguments to your command separately.

Here is an example, using the route command to change the gateway :

This fails because we are not in an elevated PS:

> route change 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3
The requested operation requires elevation.

This works after accepting the UAC:

> Start-Process route -ArgumentList "change 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3" -Verb runas

Or for a command that requires cmd.exe:

> Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c other_command arguments ..." -Verb runas

Answer 4

Using the sudo command for window users gives you the following suggestions:

First, install the scoop package management tool and execute the following commands:

Then use scoop to install the sudo command:

Finally, you can execute the command with sudo:

Answer 5

in Windows, you can use the runas command. For linux users, there are some alternatives for sudo in windows, you can check this out

http://helpdeskgeek.com/free-tools-review/5-windows-alternatives-linux-sudo-command/

Answer 6

There kind of is. I created Sudo for Windows back in 2007? 08? Here's the security paper I wrote about it - https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/bestprac/sudo-windows-sudowin-1726. Pretty sure http://sudowin.sf.net still works too.