PowerShell module that provides Start-Elevated function: it will execute the
provided command line in elavated mode. This module is able to handle to
following argument types:
- Application
- Cmdlet
- Function
- PowerShell Script
- Script Block
- Alias (For Alias, PSSudo will try to resolve as one of the other types above)
This function is aliased as sudo
Note: When using Cmdlets, Functions or Scripts, PowerShell will resolve variable arguments before passing them to the Start-Elevated function. For most situatio that would be ok. But there is a few exceptions. For instance, in the following command:
sudo Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $False
PowerShell would resolve $False to 'False' before executing Start-Elevated. Then, the following block would be executed in the elevated PowerShell:
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring False
This will throw an error, because PowerShell is not able to implicit convert 'False' string into boolean type.
For those case, you could execute:
sudo Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring 0 (As PowerShell converts
zero into $False)
Or use a Script Block:
sudo { Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $False }
Windows 10 users:
Install-Module PSSudo -Scope CurrentUser
Otherwise, if you have PsGet installed:
Install-Module PSSudo
Or you can install it manually coping PSSudo.psm1 to your modules folder (e.g.
$Env:USERPROFILE\Eduardo_Sousa\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PSSudo\)