sudo-win32

This missing sudo command for win32. This is a thin wrapper over gsudo. Check out the excellent repo here.

The only benefit for this repo is that you don't need administrator privledges in order to use this tool, while using something like choco install gsudo requires admin privledges. stderr/stdout and process return values are all supported. If you want to use gsudo directly, you can install it with choco install gsudo.

The most recent gsudo version used is 2.0.4

Usage

> pip install sudo_win32[sudo]
> sudo taskkill /F /im wslservice.exe

If you omit [sudo] then the command will just be sudo_win32.

Documentation

This is shamelessly ripped from the gsudo repo and is kept as-is. Simply replace gsudo with sudo_win32 or sudo if you installed with the [sudo] extra. Otherwise it's the same.

Usage

gsudo [options]                  # Elevates your current shell
gsudo [options] {command} [args] # Runs {command} with elevated permissions
gsudo cache [on | off | help]    # Starts/Stops a credentials cache session. (less UAC popups)
gsudo status                     # Shows current user, cache and console status.
gsudo !!                         # Re-run last command as admin. (YMMV)

New Window options:
 -n | --new            # Starts the command in a new console/window (and returns immediately).
 -w | --wait           # When in new console, wait for the command to end.
 --keepShell           # After running a command, keep the elevated shell open.
 --keepWindow          # After running a command in a new console, ask for keypress before closing the console/window.

Security options:
 -u | --user {usr}     # Run as the specified user. Asks for password. For local admins shows UAC unless '-i Medium'
 -i | --integrity {v}  # Specify integrity level: Untrusted, Low, Medium, MediumPlus, High (default), System
 -s | --system         # Run as Local System account (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM).
 --ti                  # Run as member of NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller
 -k                    # Kills all cached credentials. The next time gsudo is run a UAC popup will be appear.

Shell related options:
 -d | --direct         # Skips Shell detection. Asume CMD shell or CMD {command}.
 --loadProfile         # When elevating PowerShell commands, load user profile.

Other options:
 --loglevel {val}      # Set minimum log level to display: All, Debug, Info, Warning, Error, None
 --debug               # Enable debug mode.
 --copyns              # Connect network drives to the elevated user. Warning: Verbose, interactive asks for credentials
 --copyev              # (deprecated) Copy environment variables to the elevated process. (not needed on default console mode)

Note: You can use anywhere the sudo alias created by the installers.

Examples:

gsudo   # elevates the current shell in the current console window (Supports Cmd/PowerShell/Pwsh Core/Yori/Take Command/git-bash/cygwin)
gsudo -n # launch the current shell elevated in a new console window
gsudo -n -w powershell ./Do-Something.ps1 # launch in new window and wait for exit
gsudo notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts # launch windows app

sudo notepad # sudo alias built-in

# redirect/pipe input/output/error example
gsudo dir | findstr /c:"bytes free" > FreeSpace.txt

gsudo config LogLevel "Error"          # Configure Reduced logging
gsudo config Prompt "$P [elevated]$G " # Configure a custom Elevated Prompt
gsudo config Prompt --reset            # Reset to default value

# Enable credentials cache (less UAC popups):
gsudo config CacheMode Auto

Development

To develop software, run . ./activate.sh

Windows

This environment requires you to use git-bash.

Linting

Run ./lint.sh to find linting errors using pylint, flake8 and mypy.

Release Notes

• 1.0.9 - Allow strings or list[str] as command.
• 1.0.8 - Fixes some commands in admin mode.
• 1.0.7 - Use shell mode for gsudo, since it's a better experience. Commands are merged via subprocess.list2cmdline
• 1.0.6 - Switch the implementation to gsudo, which is excellent and does everything this lib needs.
• 1.0.5 - sudo-win32[sudo] now works correctly, before it was unconditionally installing.
• 1.0.3 - The stdout/stderr are now correct re-routed back.
• 1.0.2 - The return value of the command is now returned when elevating privledges.
• 1.0.1 - Fixing the readme
• 1.0.0 - Initial release