starred/terminal
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/microsoft/terminal.git synced 2026-02-03 21:25:34 +00:00
Code Issues 19.0k Packages Projects Releases 20 Wiki Activity

Add the ability to launch a new tab as an Administrator but without launching a whole second copy of the terminal #6370

New Issue
Closed
opened 2026-01-31 00:36:52 +00:00 by claunia · 3 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 00:36:52 +00:00
Owner
Copy Link

Originally created by @borland on GitHub (Feb 11, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I'm not entirely sure if this is possible given the limitations of the Windows elevation model, but what I would very much like is to be able to launch a new Tab within Terminal as an administrator.

(Actually what I'd really like is sudo, but windows is doggedly not going there and that's not within the remit of the Terminal team)

Anyway, something like this:

image

and the admin tabs would have a corresponding (Admin) and variation on the icon color or something to that effect

I would like to use this feature because I occasionally (once/twice per day) need to perform administrative commands. Having to open or find a seperate administrative entire terminal window is not great, it's hard to keep track of and unwieldy. Tabbed terminals are great, and it would be even greater to incorporate an Admin tab.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

See above mockup

Originally created by @borland on GitHub (Feb 11, 2020). # Description of the new feature/enhancement I'm not entirely sure if this is possible given the limitations of the Windows elevation model, but what I would very much like is to be able to launch a new Tab within Terminal as an administrator. (Actually what I'd really like is sudo, but windows is doggedly not going there and that's not within the remit of the Terminal team) Anyway, something like this: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6362/74229140-a88b0300-4d26-11ea-84fc-738aa1c77989.png) and the admin tabs would have a corresponding (Admin) and variation on the icon color or something to that effect I would like to use this feature because I occasionally (once/twice per day) need to perform administrative commands. Having to open or find a seperate administrative entire terminal window is not great, it's hard to keep track of and unwieldy. Tabbed terminals are great, and it would be even greater to incorporate an Admin tab. # Proposed technical implementation details (optional) See above mockup
claunia added the Issue-FeatureNeeds-TriageNeeds-Tag-Fix labels 2026-01-31 00:36:52 +00:00
claunia commented 2026-01-31 00:36:53 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@j4james commented on GitHub (Feb 11, 2020):

This has been requested before, but it can't be done. See issue https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1032#issuecomment-496308808.

@j4james commented on GitHub (Feb 11, 2020): This has been requested before, but it can't be done. See issue https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1032#issuecomment-496308808.
claunia commented 2026-01-31 00:36:53 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@borland commented on GitHub (Feb 11, 2020):

Oh awesome, sorry for raising the dupe

@borland commented on GitHub (Feb 11, 2020): Oh awesome, sorry for raising the dupe
claunia commented 2026-01-31 00:36:54 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@gerardog commented on GitHub (Feb 20, 2020):

FYI @borland: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

Then you can add a WT profile:

{
  "name": "Elevated PowerShel",
  "commandline": "gsudo.exe PowerShell",
  "hidden": false
},
@gerardog commented on GitHub (Feb 20, 2020): FYI @borland: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo Then you can add a WT profile: { "name": "Elevated PowerShel", "commandline": "gsudo.exe PowerShell", "hidden": false },
Sign in to join this conversation.
No Branch/Tag Specified
Branches Tags
Labels
Clear labels
⛺ Reserved
A11yCO
A11yMAS
A11ySev1
A11ySev2
A11ySev3
A11yTTValidated
A11yUsable
A11yVoiceAccess
A11yWCAG
Area-Accessibility
Area-AtlasEngine
Area-AzureShell
Area-Build
Area-Build
Area-Chat
Area-CmdPal
Area-CodeHealth
Area-Commandline
Area-CookedRead
Area-DefApp
Area-Extensibility
Area-Fonts
Area-GroupPolicy
Area-i18n
Area-Input
Area-Interaction
Area-Interop
Area-Localization
Area-Output
Area-Performance
Area-Portable
Area-Quality
Area-Remoting
Area-Rendering
Area-Schema
Area-Server
Area-Settings
Area-SettingsUI
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-Suggestions
Area-Suggestions
Area-TerminalConnection
Area-TerminalControl
Area-Theming
Area-UserInterface
Area-VT
Area-Windowing
Area-WPFControl
AutoMerge
Blocking-Ingestion
Culprit-Centennial
Culprit-WinUI
Disability-All
Disability-Blind
Disability-LowVision
Disability-Mobility
External-Blocked-WinUI3
Fixed
Gathering-Data
good first issue
HCL-E+D
HCL-WindowsTerminal
Help Wanted
Impact-Compatibility
Impact-Compliance
Impact-Correctness
Impact-Visual
In-PR
InclusionBacklog
InclusionBacklog-Windows TerminalWin32
InclusionCommitted-202206
Issue-Bug
Issue-Docs
Issue-Feature
Issue-Feature
Issue-Question
Issue-Samples
Issue-Scenario
Issue-Task
Needs-Attention
Needs-Author-Feedback
Needs-Bisect
Needs-Discussion
Needs-Repro
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Triage
No-Recent-Activity
Priority-0
Priority-1
Priority-2
Priority-3
Product-Cmd.exe
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Conhost
Product-Conpty
Product-Meta
Product-Powershell
Product-Terminal
Product-WSL
pull-request
Mirrored from GitHub Pull Request
 Resolution-Answered
Resolution-By-Design
Resolution-Duplicate
Resolution-External
Resolution-Fix-Available
Resolution-Fix-Committed
Resolution-No-Repro
Resolution-Won't-Fix
Severity-Blocking
Severity-Crash
Severity-DataLoss
spam
this-will-be-a-breaking-change
Tracking-External
WindowsTerminal_Win32
Work-Item
zAskModeBug
zInbox-Bug
No Label Issue-Feature Needs-Tag-Fix Needs-Triage
Milestone
No items
No Milestone
Projects
Clear projects
No project
Assignees
Clear assignees
claunia
No Assignees
1 Participants
Notifications
Due Date
No due date set.
Dependencies

No dependencies set.

Reference: starred/terminal#6370
Delete Branch "%!s()"

Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?