Am 19.01.2023 um 20:17 schrieb Jochen Wiedmann via Cygwin:
Hi,
as someone who is quite used to typing
sudo do something
I would really like to do the same in my CygWin bash.In my opinion,
this could be implemented
relatively simply, and straightforward as follows:
- Accept an array of strings with the command, that is being
executed with administrator
privileges.
- Use the standard Windows API to execute some functionality with
admin privileges.
In the current case, that functionality would be a simple exec
with the above command line.
The result would be a sudo executable without some of the configurable
features of the
Linux/Unix sudo (like execution without password, or execution of
special command lines
without root privileges), but just the same for all practical
purposes. I think, that a lot of users
would benefit.
Thanks,
Jochen
There used to be a su tool in cygwin.
See future of su
<https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2012-May/030226.html> and
"su" command removed / coreutils-8.23-2
<https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2014-September/217105.html> for
some discussion.
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