diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 087a128..0b31c81 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "wgnetns"
-version = "2.1.0"
+version = "2.2.0"
 description = "wg-quick for network namespaces"
 authors = ["dadevel <dadevel@disroot.org>"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/wgnetns/main.py b/wgnetns/main.py
index c643d0c..0d0fb39 100755
--- a/wgnetns/main.py
+++ b/wgnetns/main.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from argparse import ArgumentParser, RawDescriptionHelpFormatter
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Optional
 import dataclasses
+import itertools
 import json
 import os
 import subprocess
@@ -58,6 +59,11 @@ def cli(args):
     parser.add_argument('-f', '--force', action='store_true', help='ignore errors')
     parser.add_argument('profile', type=lambda x: Path(x).expanduser(), metavar='PROFILE', help='name or path of profile')
 
+    parser = subparsers.add_parser('list', help='list network namespaces')
+
+    parser = subparsers.add_parser('switch', help='open shell in namespace')
+    parser.add_argument('netns', metavar='NETNS', help='network namespace name')
+
     opts = entrypoint.parse_args(args)
 
     try:
@@ -68,8 +74,9 @@ def cli(args):
     except Exception as e:
         raise RuntimeError(f'failed to load environment variable: {e} (e.__class__.__name__)') from e
 
-    namespace = Namespace.from_profile(opts.profile)
     if opts.action == 'up':
+        _conditional_elevate()
+        namespace = Namespace.from_profile(opts.profile)
         try:
             namespace.setup()
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
@@ -78,11 +85,24 @@ def cli(args):
             namespace.teardown(check=False)
             raise
     elif opts.action == 'down':
+        _conditional_elevate()
+        namespace = Namespace.from_profile(opts.profile)
         namespace.teardown(check=not opts.force)
+    elif opts.action == 'list':
+        output = ip('-json', 'netns', capture=True)
+        data = json.loads(output)
+        print('\n'.join(item['name'] for item in data))
+    elif opts.action == 'switch':
+        os.execvp('sudo', ['ip', 'ip', 'netns', 'exec', opts.netns, 'sudo', '-u', os.getlogin(), '-D', Path.cwd().as_posix(), os.environ['SHELL'], '-i'])
     else:
         raise RuntimeError('congratulations, you reached unreachable code')
 
 
+def _conditional_elevate() -> None:
+    if os.getuid() != 0 and os.isatty(sys.stdin.fileno()):
+        os.execvp('sudo', [sys.argv[0], *sys.argv])
+
+
 @dataclasses.dataclass
 class Peer:
     public_key: str