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    Sudo is coming to windows (programming.dev)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/02/08/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26052-canary-and-dev-channels/

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Is it a wrapper around runas?

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe, but knowing the ease of sudo, I really hate using runas. Most of the time, I just want plain old admin privileges. Mostly I don't care whether I can impersonate another user with this.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Given what MS did to powershell to make *nix commands like ls work (i.e. make them plain aliases to the equivalent powershell commands without any attempt to convert flags) I wouldn't get my hopes up. (Nothing could have prepared me for the disappointment of typing ls -l and getting an error.)

    I hate to be a pessimist but $20 says they're just making it so they can technically claim that Windows supports commands Linux users are used to and therefore that Linux users should have no trouble in a Windows environment.

    [–] h0rnman 3 points 9 months ago

    runas is trash, to be honest. I've been waiting 30 years for an OS-native tool that allows me to delegate specific commands for specific users to run with specific parameters as admin. Something I can do with sudo (well, sudoers) in 5 minutes is outright impossible on Windows. I'd like to believe that Microsoft will implement this part of sudo, but I'm not gonna hold my breath

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    runas.exe cannot start elevated process. Exceptions seem to be MMC snap-ins so you can launch something like lusrmgr.msc or devmgmt.msc with admin account and you will have admin rights.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    From the page linked in that article