Comments on: Sudo for Windows Vista

By: Johannes Rössel

Johannes Rössel — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:08:14 +0000

It’s much easier to just launch the program with Ctrl+Shift+Enter after typing cmd in the start menu search box. Start++ has been, at least in the time I used it, a constant source of annoyances and slowdowns when dealing with the start menu.

By: altonius

altonius — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:00:38 +0000

rusas is very different than sudo…..

have a read of
http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_ma.....93721.aspx

The big differnece between runas and admin are desribed as:

“When you need to perform tasks that require elevated privileges, you use RunAs to start a program with the local Administrator account. You quickly realize two things:

1. The program running as local Administrator cannot access network resources, since your local account is recognized only on your own computer; and
2. Any per-user settings apply to the local Administrator’s profile, not to the profile you normally work with.”

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:30:43 +0000

This utility is redundant. XP and Vista come with the ‘runas’ utility that allows you to run any program as any other user that your computer can authenticate.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:25:46 +0000

In a text file named sudo.bat, in your path…
runas /env /user:Administrator “cmd /c %*”

Works OK for me.

sudo notepad C:\windows\system32\driver\etc\HOSTS

I have an ’su.bat’, too. Only difference is, it launches into a new cmd shell (which I colored red).
runas /env /user:Administrator cmd

You get a handy command prompt with ‘Administrator’ privileges where you don’t have to ‘elevate’ individual commands. .

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:13:29 +0000

I wasn’t saying it isn’t useful – I am sure it is. But if someone calls something a duck then people expect it to quack. Now if it could run an application based on a rights to user table with a token that had the administrators group inserted without the use being an administrator then it could be called sudo and I would be pushing for a site license for the company I work at (so long as it passed a few security tests . But I suspect there is no was MS would allow this to be done.

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:11:12 +0000

This is very useful. Alt+Enter is nice, but this is a lot more versatile, especially considering it works in the command prompt. Sure, I could just type “cmd” in the Start search box and press Alt+Enter, but what if I’m already in the command prompt and want to run bcdedit? I’d have to open a new command prompt with administrative privileges just to do that. This saves me time, even if it isn’t a true sudo (and who even said it was?).

By: Anthony Murdoch

Anthony Murdoch — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:55:44 +0000

Sigh – I’m so frustrated that UAC and tools like this keep getting called sudo. A real sudo would allow the administrator to provide a list of applications that the user is allowed to run as an administrator. With UAC you have the admin group membership – we will just pretend that you don’t unless you ask for them. A real sudo would be useful in cases where you don’t want to give your users admin rights on their workstation but they have one application that will not work without admin rights. UAC is “lets give the user Admin rights whenever he asks for it and trust that he will never do anything wrong with it.

By: Kory

Kory — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:36:00 +0000

While Manuel Wenk is partially correct (you can use alt+enter only from start menu’s launch), and hank has a good idea with creating a shortcut with admin privileges, but this tool would still be very handy for running programs from a networked drive with admin privileges–especially if you don’t want to use start menu.

By: hank

hank — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:24:21 +0000

I setup a shorcut to CMD.exe and then set the shortcut to have administrative privileges.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:57:12 +0000

“The problem is that Windows Vista doesn’t have a built-in command to launch an application in administrator mode.”

That’s not correct. Forget sudo, just launch the App or cmd by pressing Alt+Enter.

Greeting,
Manuel Wenk
MCAD