Permissions

Elevated commands

The following commands may prompt for UAC on Windows because they modify the hosts file or trust store:

• devproxy init
• devproxy add
• devproxy update
• devproxy remove
• devproxy sync-hosts
• devproxy trust

devproxy doctor --fix may also need elevation for specific fixes such as hosts sync and cert trust.

WARNING

DevProxy prompts for elevation on Windows only when it needs to update the hosts file or trust store. On macOS and Linux, it still falls back to platform-specific instructions.

When testing a local build on Windows, node dist/cli.js add api.myapp --port 8000 uses the same UAC flow as the installed devproxy binary. The current terminal stays unelevated; DevProxy launches a short-lived elevated helper for the protected operation and then returns to the original command.

Non-elevated commands

These commands should run without sudo or Administrator rights:

• devproxy start
• devproxy stop
• devproxy open
• devproxy ui
• devproxy list
• devproxy status
• devproxy doctor
• devproxy certs