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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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  1. 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…
    comment by burkaman · 2026-02-03 · in Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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