How would I run the following command in windows:

$ sudo django-admin.py startproject NEW 

?

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There is no sudo command in Windows. The nearest equivalent is "run as administrator."

You can do this using the runas command with an administrator trust-level, or by right-clicking the program in the UI and choosing "run as administrator."

All the answers explain how to elevate your command in a new console host. So, I wrote: gsudo to behave like Unix/Linux sudo, allowing to execute the command inside the current console.

gsudo

• Source Code, Documentation, and Releases available at:

Most relevant features:

• Elevates in the current console (no new window)
• Elevates cmd commands, but also PowerShell / WSL / Git-Bash / cygwin / Msys / commands natively.
• Optional: Credentials Cache (Elevate many times with only one UAC popup)

Installation

• Using scoop: scoop install gsudo
• Using Chocolatey: choco install gsudo
• Using Winget: winget install gerardog.gsudo
• Manually: Download the latest release, unzip, and add to path, from

Demo

Open notepad and paste this code:

@echo off powershell -Command "Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList '/c cd /d %CD% && %*'" @echo on 

Then, save the file as sudo.cmd. Copy this file and paste it at C:\Windows\System32 or add the path where sudo.cmd is to your PATH Environment Variable.

When you open command prompt, you can now run something like sudo start ..

If you want the admin command prompt window to stay open when you run the command, change the code in notepad to this:

@echo off powershell -Command "Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList '/k cd /d %CD% && %*'" @echo on 

Explanation:

powershell -Command runs a powershell command.

Start-Process is a powershell command that starts a process, in this case, command prompt.

-Verb RunAs runs the command as admin.

-Argument-List runs the command with arguments.

Our arguments are '/c cd /d %CD% && %*'. %* means all arguments, so if you did sudo foo bar, it would run in command prompt foo bar because the parameters are foo and bar, and %* returns foo bar. cd /d %CD% is a command to go to the current directory. This will ensure that when you open the elevated window, the directory will be the same as the normal window. the && means that if the first command is successful, run the second command.

The /c is a cmd parameter for closing the window after the command is finished, and the /k is a cmd parameter for keeping the window open.

Credit to Adam Plocher for the staying in the current directory code.

I've created wsudo, an open-source sudo-like CLI tool for Windows to run programs or commands with elevated right, in the context of the current directory. It's available as a Chocolatey package.

I use it a lot for stuff like configuring build agents, admin things like sfc /scannow, dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth or simply for installing/updating my local Chocolatey packages. Use at your own risk.

Installation

choco install wsudo 

Chocolatey must be already installed.

Purpose

wsudo is a Linux sudo-like tool for Windows to invoke a program with elevated rights (as Administrator) from a non-admin shell command prompt and keeping its current directory.

This implementation doesn't depend on the legacy Windows Script Host (CScript). Instead, it uses a helper PowerShell 5.1 script that invokes "Start-Process -Wait -Verb runAs ..." cmdlet. Your system most likely already has PowerShell 5.x installed, otherwise you'll be offered to install it as a dependency.

Usage

wsudo runs a program or an inline command with elevated rights in the current directory. Examples:

wsudo .\myAdminScript.bat wsudox "del C:\Windows\Temp\*.* && pause" wasudo cup all -y wasudox start notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 

For more details, visit the GitHub repro.

runas command requires the users to type password. If you don't want to type password and want to just click the UAC dialog, use Start-Process -Verb runas in PowerShell instead of runas command.

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You normally wouldn't, since you wouldn't run it under *nix regardless. Do development in a user directory, and deploy afterwards to system directories.

in Windows, you can use the runas command. For linux users, there are some alternatives for sudo in windows, you can check this out

There kind of is. I created Sudo for Windows back in 2007? 08? Here's the security paper I wrote about it - . Pretty sure still works too.

You could use runas command - or sudowin -

There is no sudo command in case of windows and also there is no need to put any $. For installing Angular CLI through node.js command prompt in windows, I just wrote npm install -g @angular/cli and then pressed Enter. It worked fine.

The following vbs script allows to launch a given command with arguments with elevation and mimics the behavior of the original unix sudo command for a limited set of used cases (it will not cache credentials nor it allows to truly execute commands with different credentials). I put it on C:\Windows\System32.

Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments exe = objArgs(0) args = "" IF objArgs.Count >= 2 Then args = args & objArgs(1) End If For it = 2 to objArgs.Count - 1 args = args & " " & objArgs(it) Next Set objShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell") windir=objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%WINDIR%") Set objShellApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application") objShellApp.ShellExecute exe, args, "", "runas", 1 set objShellApp = nothing 

Example use on a command prompt sudo net start service

I think I tried steps below after doing some research & succeeded

1.Install scoop using powershell 3 (iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('')) 2. do scoop install --global sudo 3. make sure paths (C:\Users\\scoop\shims & C:\ProgramData\scoop\shims) added in environmental path variable.

open the console as a administrator. Right Click on the command prompt or bash -> more and select "run as administrator"

In Windows Powershell you can use Start-Process command with option -Verb RunAs to start and elevated process. Here is my sudo function example:

function sudo { Start-Process @args -verb runas } 

Ex: Open hosts file as Admin in notepad

sudo notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 

To just run a command as admin in a non-elevated Powershell, you can use Start-Process directly, with the right options, particularly -Verb runas.

It's a lot more convoluted than sudo, particularly because you can't just re-use the previous command with an additional option. You need to specify the arguments to your command separately.

Here is an example, using the route command to change the gateway :

This fails because we are not in an elevated PS:

> route change 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3 The requested operation requires elevation. 

This works after accepting the UAC:

> Start-Process route -ArgumentList "change 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3" -Verb runas 

Or for a command that requires cmd.exe:

> Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c other_command arguments ..." -Verb runas 

Using the sudo command for window users gives you the following suggestions:

First, install the scoop package management tool and execute the following commands:

Then use scoop to install the sudo command:

Finally, you can execute the command with sudo:

I am glad to help you.

To make a sudo command follow the steps :-

1. Make a folder env in C:\ Drive.
2. Make a folder inside the env folder named as bin.
3. Now add C:\env\bin to your PATH.
4. Create a file sudo.bat in C:\env\bin.
5. Edit it with notepad and write this code :-
   

Hope this will help you