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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
 

Shipped in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052. https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2024/02/sudo-on-windows-quick-rundown.html claims it has a big security problem that makes the program accept calls to elevate from anywhere once first run

Edit:

  1. The security problem has been internally fixed and will be available in the next release
  2. It's not just an alias for 'runas'. It seems to be able to configurably block user input for sudo'd commands, retain the existing environment, ditch it and open a new window, and remember that you've sudo'd in the last minute or so.
  3. It brings up UAC instead of having you input the password
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This incident will be reported.

[–] breakingcups 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

"Would you like to buy some sudocrem?"

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] jerrythegenius 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

remove for real, for real

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Wouldn’t work on powershell in which the options parser works very differently

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[–] tabular 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sudo already exists, is it okay to just name a different program by the same name?

Guess which one Bing search will try harder to return.

[–] Salzkrebs 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I hate searching for sway config stuff using DDG (which returns Bing results).

Chances are never zero that that there is an outdated MS product with the same name of what you're searching.

[–] squid_slime 4 points 11 months ago

I feel this, I type swaywm instead now

[–] victorz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hold up. DDG returns Bing results? TIL. Is that true? How do we know? Do they state this, themselves?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

They are already doing it for other commands. Eg curl.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Welcome to 1980, Microsoft (or 1993 if you're feeling really generous).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Finally! The day I've been waiting for so long. Goodbye Linux, hello Windows!

- nobody ever

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In your mind, do you really think that is the intention here? Seems more like a convenience for people who use both Linux and Windows.

I have to use both so I welcome it.

[–] naticus 4 points 11 months ago

Seriously. My home PC runs Linux primarily, but I sysadmin both Windows and Linux at work and this will be very convenient. Forgetting to run PowerShell as admin is always frustrating, especially when I have the commands and variables already established.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Install Linux already, get it over with. Windows has been and still is a sad joke, why pay for that crap?

[–] PlutoniumAcid 12 points 11 months ago

Sure, tell my corporate overlords to do that, on thousands of computers across the globe.

At home i can do what I want, at work I have to bow down.

[–] QuarterSwede 9 points 11 months ago

Because business uses Windows services, which are, by far, the most common. And when collaborating and sharing files is essential this is a major deal breaker. I love *nix but it just wouldn’t work as well in the business world until there are wide spread services that replicate or do better than what Microsoft does with enterprise support and pricing in mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)
[–] moriquende 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can get a legit Windows 11 key for like 5 bucks, no reason not to install it honestly. Even if only for dual booting, it can save you a lot of headaches.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, so yea just a "better" version of runas. I can see it being a bit easier when you just need to do the one thing as admin, but overall just opening an admin windows is still going to be the best way.

I really think the security issues makes it not worth enabling.

[–] w2tpmf 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yep. It's basically an alias for:

runas /user:administrator

If you want to open a new command line window with admin privs you can always do:

runas /user: administrator CMD.exe

Which is of course on Linux this would kinda be like running:

sudo su
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not just an alias. It seems to be able to configurably block user input for sudo'd commands, retain the existing environment, ditch it and open a new window, and remember that you've sudo'd in the last minute or so.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

and i'm thinking about switching to doas.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh thank goodness! I have been waiting so long for this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why wait? Linux has had sudo for over 25 years

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And sudo itself has existed for over 40 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

sometimes I work on windows. I miss sudo when I do 🤷‍♂️

[–] nutsack 3 points 11 months ago

looks like shit thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did they ask for permission first? :p

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[–] FrostKing 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Substitute user do", most commonly used on Linux to run your command as superuser (think admin mode on Windows)

[–] theherk 4 points 11 months ago

That still sounds so weird, as opposed to the old “super user do”.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Tell me it has a better configuration format than sudo.

(I've ditched sudo for OpenBSD 'doas' across the board ever since it made its way into debian's repos)

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[–] kittenzrulz123 2 points 11 months ago

Soooo revolutionary and unique like Phone Link

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