gsudo

It's not sudo for Windows, it's a pile of rust which, if you figure out how to assemble it, presumably turns into some Microsoft interpretation of sudo which, judging by all the open issues, might be an attempt at grep that went wrong somewhere. If you want a proper sudo for Windows, use gerardog's excellent gsudo, https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo. Among other things it comes with prebuilt binaries and installers.

We had https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo long before this came out.

I've been using alacritty [0] for a while now. Really happy with it. I prefer it over the Windows Terminal, as it feels faster for me. I run a single instance with WSL on the desktop and use tmux for multiplexing. Executing powershell inside tmux isn't an issue. If I need an elevated shell, I use gsudo [1]. [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty [1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

Ugh, I tried looking into the state of codesigning foss apps for windows, and it's not great it seems. https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo/issues/1#issuecomment-2111... suggests either: https://github.com/Azure/trusted-signing-action Which is 10 USD/month - or publishing in the windows store: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/publish/?tabs... https://github.com/marketplace/actions/microsoft-store-publi... Not free either, but one time fee: https://github.com/microsoft/store-submission/issues/15

There's always gsudo: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

There is runas to run as a different user. And if you want to run as the same user but elevated, there has been third-party software like gsudo [1]. But yeah, the recommended way to do it was to just open an elevated terminal, run the one admin command you need there and close it again. Not a huge deal if all you want to do is run a choco install command or something; and generally you don't switch so much back-and-forth between needing admin and not needing it. 1: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

There's already a tool out there that works just fine: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

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?

I love using gsudo[0] for this. It doesn't support running as TrustedInstaller (AFAIK), but when I run into a command that requires elevated permissions, I just prepend `sudo` at the beginning, and it elevates the current shell (without a new window) and lets me run the command. PS> choco upgrade deno Chocolatey detected you are not running from an elevated command shell ^C PS> sudo choco upgrade deno Chocolatey v0.10.15 Upgrading the following packages: deno [0]: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

cinst gsudo Works like on linux. Runas and friends are junk. https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

That would have been useful. In the meanwhile there is gsudo [1]. [1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo