sudo

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sudo

Synopsis

sudo for windows is made for elevating user rights on the fly. It will invoke UAC request. The main purpose to get rid of mouse (to avoid shift+rightclick or Run as ...). Since runas cli commmand so much inconvenient to use.

Usage

C:\>sudo cmd /c dir

Then, you'll see the UAC dialog.

Examples

Display contents of file which can't access from you

sudo cmd /c type secret-file.txt > accessible-file.txt

Pipe from/to stream

echo 123 | sudo my-command.exe | more

Change IP address

sudo netsh interface ip add address "Local Area Connection" 33.33.33.33 255.255.255.255

Edit hosts file

sudo notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Create admin's console

sudo

Installation

• From scratch:

  You will need golang 1.10 or later.

  1. go get github.com/moldabekov/sudo
  2. go build -ldflags"-s -w" .

• Binary:

  Download from release tab.

License

MIT

Credits

Yasuhiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. mattn) as a initial author.