termux-sudo

A bash script that provides sudo for Termux
Termux is a terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android

Note

termux-sudo was originally hosted on GitHub.
Due to the fact that Termux sudo was deleted from Github i decide to upload it for the public use Requirements

Rooted phone with su binary
SUDO WILL NOT WORK WITHOUT SU

Installing sudo

1. Clone termux-sudo or download to phone and extract
2. Open Termux
3. Install a dependency needed for sudo: pkg install ncurses-utils
4. Change to cloned or extraction directory
5. Execute the following commands to place sudo into the correct directory with the proper permissions and ownership

cat sudo > /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/sudo
chmod 700 /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/sudo

Features

• Sets up its environment automatically on first run, no need to do anything but use it
• Creates a root folder .suroot in the Termux home folder with proper root permissions and ownership
• Creates .bashrc file in root folder with proper PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables set so all binaries function correctly
• Bash prompt PS1 variable is also set so you don't have bash-4.4# as prompt just #
• Automatically creates .bash_history in root folder when you drop to a root shell so root shell history is preserved
• Can be used like ordinary sudo (but only as root, no other user)
• Can drop to root shell sudo su [-]
• Runs built in Termux binaries and exteral binaries with optional arguments as root in current directory
• Generates output in shell currently using
• Can be used in other bash scripts
• [option] Can turn off colored error messages be editing the variable colored at the beginning of sudo file

Usage:

sudo su [-]  
  Drop to root shell

sudo <command> [<args>]  
  Run command as root with optional arguments

This was inspired by the following: https://github.com/st42/termux-sudo https://github.com/cswl/tsu
https://gist.github.com/cswl/cd13971e644dc5ced7b2