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It's sudo, for Windows

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2024-02-08 · latest 2026-04-19

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    Sudo for Windows (2024)
    story by luispa · 2026-04-19 · 96 comments
  2. https://github.com/microsoft/sudo?tab=readme-ov-file#relatio... > This project is not a fork of the Unix/Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of that sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo…
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    Sudo for Windows
    story by plurby · 2024-02-11 · 0 comments
  4. We're working on backporting it to Windows 10. For updates, you can follow https://github.com/microsoft/sudo/issues/2
    comment by zadjii · 2024-02-09 · in Sudo for Windows
  5. Already working on it :) You can follow https://github.com/microsoft/sudo/issues/2 for updates. Honestly, the hardest part will be porting the Settings app changes to the Windows 10 styles. `sudo.exe` itself doesn't really depend on any OS…
    comment by zadjii · 2024-02-08 · in Sudo for Windows
  6. https://github.com/microsoft/sudo/issues/11 Interesting > Reserved > not blank! > We like to camp nice round number issues like this one, for future use. Can you reuse GitHub issue numbers, or what could be their intention here?
    comment by SushiHippie · 2024-02-08 · in Sudo for Windows