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Sudo for Windows

15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 4 stories, 11 comments · first 2020-01-30 · latest 2026-04-21

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  1. …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.
    comment by pseudohadamard · 2026-04-21 · in Sudo for Windows (2024)
  2. We had https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo long before this came out.
    comment by overflowy · 2026-04-20 · in Sudo for Windows (2024)
  3. …issue. If I need an elevated shell, I use gsudo [1]. [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty [1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
    comment by sigttou · 2025-09-24 · in Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator
  4. …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…
    comment by e12e · 2024-12-14 · in Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application
  5. There's always gsudo: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
    comment by Sidneys1 · 2024-02-09 · in Sudo for Windows
  6. …and generally you don't switch so much back-and-forth between needing admin and not needing it. 1: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
    comment by wongarsu · 2024-02-09 · in Sudo for Windows
  7. There's already a tool out there that works just fine: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
    comment by niux · 2024-02-08 · in Sudo for Windows
  8. 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…
    comment by PreInternet01 · 2024-02-08 · in Sudo for Windows
  9. …^C PS> sudo choco upgrade deno Chocolatey v0.10.15 Upgrading the following packages: deno [0]: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
    comment by abdusco · 2020-12-28 · in NSudo – run processes as System or TrustedInstaller
  10. cinst gsudo Works like on linux. Runas and friends are junk. https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
    comment by majkinetor · 2020-12-25 · in Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
  11. That would have been useful. In the meanwhile there is gsudo [1]. [1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
    comment by shadowfox · 2020-05-19 · in Windows Terminal 1.0