SuRun Alternatives

SuRun is described as 'Eases using Windows 2000 to Windows Vista with limited user rights. With SuRun you can start applications with elevated rights without needing administrator credentials. Note: site is in German but app is translated to English' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are three alternatives to SuRun for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, NetBSD and BSD. The best SuRun alternative is sudo-rs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SuRun are doas and sudo.

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    A memory safe implementation of sudo and su.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
    • sudo-rs is the most popular Linux alternative to SuRun.

    • sudo-rs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SuRun.

    • sudo-rs is Free and Open SourceSuRun is also Free and Open Source
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    A port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and illumos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Mac
     
    • doas is the most popular Mac alternative to SuRun.

    • doas is Free and Open SourceSuRun is also Free and Open Source
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    Run commands as root.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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