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Root user/sudo equivalent in Cygwin From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4090301/root-user-sudo-equivalent-in-cygwin

Root user/sudo equivalent in Cygwin

From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4090301/root-user-sudo-equivalent-in-cygwin

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To run command with elevated privileges in Cygwin, precede the command with cygstart --action=runas like this:

$ cygstart --action=runas command

This will open a Windows dialogue box asking for the Admin password and run the command if the proper password is entered.

This is easily scripted, so long as ~/bin is in your path. Create a file ~/bin/sudo with the following content:

#!/usr/bin/bash
cygstart --action=runas "$@"

Now make the file executable:

$ chmod +x ~/bin/sudo

Now you can run commands with real elevated privileges:

$ sudo elevatedCommand

You may need to add ~/bin to your path. You can run the following command on the Cygwin CLI, or add it to ~/.bashrc:

$ PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH