Sudo on windows?

[codeitlikemiley]

I understand this is a re-write of sudo on linux , unix or bsd distributions.

I just wonder if this is supporting sudo for windows
or or like perform something similar like
running as Administrator
or
runAs
or
https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

It would be great if this would be cross-platform

[squell]

Thanks for your suggestion!

Do note that this is currently a GNU/Linux-only project.

If we start porting to a different operating system, a BSD-based would be the most logical step (but even that is currently not on the road map). Supporting Windows would require a substantial rewrite, and is unlikely to happen.

[rnijveld]

To add a little more to this: it is even highly unlikely that we could even build something like sudo in Windows, because UAC (User Account control) is built directly into Windows and probably has no exposed API that we could rely on. Furthermore, the concepts that Windows uses to differentiate between privileged and unpriviliged users are entirely different than what is common on Linux, BSD and other unix-like systems, which makes supporting Windows virtually impossible. Of course if you use the linux subsystem for windows, you can run our implementation on top of that, but only within that context, not as a general privilige acquisition tool for general usage.