Support sudo <PowerShell cmdlet> #3232

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1. Joey Aiello (joeyaiello)

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3. MaximoTrinidad commented on Feb 28, 2017

   

   Maximo Trinidad (MaximoTrinidad)

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   Hum! Very interesting. But, I think the actual behavior is as expected. As in Windows we don't have a command like sudo.
   But, you could use 'sudo powershell' and then do the remove foo.txt (which was created using 'sudo powershell') then it works when using Remove-Item. Of course, it won't work in a non-elevated permission.

   I would only use 'sudo' on Linux commands ("sudo nautilus") from within PowerShell.

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4. SteveL-MSFT commented on Mar 1, 2017

   

   Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT)

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   Even on Windows, it would be good to have similar capability to run a cmdlet as another user or elevated and something that could relied on in portable scripts. May need an RFC for this.

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8. pcgeek86 commented on Apr 7, 2017

   

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   This functionality would be useful to work around #3506.

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11. bergmeister commented on Feb 9, 2024

    

    Christoph Bergmeister (bergmeister)

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    With Windows supporting sudo now (in Insiders) as first class citizen, this will allow at least wrap-around functionality: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/

    

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    Introducing Sudo for Windows!

    Introducing Sudo for Windows We’re excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052! Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session. It is an ergonomic and familiar solution for users who want to elevate a command without having to first open a new elevated console.

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12. agowa commented on Feb 9, 2024

    

    Klaus Frank (agowa)

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    Only client versions of windows. What is with servers?
13. charltonstanley commented on Mar 27, 2024

    

    Charlton Stanley (charltonstanley)

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    This issue goes back 7 years, so I may have missed somebody sharing this already, but in case it hasn't, here it is.

    It seems that sudo -s will read the $SHELL environment variable to determine what shell to use to execute the command. I changed it to point to pwsh and that seems to work for my current need of moving a file.

    #!/usr/bin/env pwsh
    
    $Env:SHELL = '/opt/microsoft/powershell/7/pwsh'
    $source = /tmp/file.csv
    $dst = /home/user/tmp/file.csv
    sudo -s Move-Item -Path $source -Destination $dst -Force

    However, if I append -Confirm:$false to the Move-Item cmdlet, I get the following error:

    Move-Item: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Confirm\'.
    

    So this kinda works for using sudo against some simple cmdlets on Linux, but for more complex commands you will definitely get unexpected results. YMMW. Use with caution.
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15. GlacierFox commented on Jul 17, 2024

    

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    Just ran into this while creating a script to transfer my published project data over to my home server. I'm using a bash command to achieve it now but would be great to have some sort of sudo mechanism built into to Powershell so I don't have to change style depending on the privileges I hold.
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    The Engine WG discussed this. We do not feel that this is a problem PowerShell should solve directly. We will monitor the new built-in Windows sudo and see if there are better opportunities to integrate, but if those come up we will open a new issue.

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    This issue has been marked as declined and has not had any activity for 1 day. It has been closed for housekeeping purposes.

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    📣 Hey Joey Aiello (@joeyaiello), how did we do? We would love to hear your feedback with the link below! 🗣️

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