sudo-win32

This is sudo for Windows, which in origin is a superuser thread.

Building

git clone https://github.com/comutt/sudo-win32.git
cd sudo-win32
nmake

Usage

sudo <command> <arguments...>

Notice

To use in the Cygwin environment, please be careful about the following:

• Something wrong with sudo bash -c.
  • I gave up to know why it's worng.
• Normally, you cannot do sudo hoge.sh
  • If you associate *.sh files to bash, it may be possible, but I don't test that.
• If sudo bash hoge.sh then Windows system path is prior to Cygwin's so you cannot use commands such as find, rsync, or so.
• If sudo bash --login hoge.sh then the current directory will be normally user's home directory so files specified in arguments cannot be found by bash.
  • To avoid that do sudo bash --login $(readlink -m hoge.sh).
• It's different from Unix sudo.
  • A propmpt will be newely opened.
  • If scripts executed, a prompt will be closed immediately after execution finished.
    • To avoid that improve the script to pause with a command such as read -p.
  • Command run with sudo will output to the new prompt, so for example, sudo rsync -av src/ dest/ will not perform as expected.