Sudo for Windows
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Sudo for Windows
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Re: Sudo for Windows
#2Yep, it's really happening. Sudo is coming to Windows. It's obviously not just a fork of the linux sudo - there's enough that's different about the permissions structure between OS's that just a straight port wouldn't make sense. But the dream of being able to run commands as admin, in the same terminal window - that's the experience we're finally bringing to users.
I've been working on this for the last few months now and I'm pretty excited to talk about it or answer any questions!
Re: Sudo for Windows
#3https://github.com/microsoft/sudo/issues/11
Interesting
> Reserved
> not blank!
> We like to camp nice round number issues like this one, for future use.
Can you reuse GitHub issue numbers, or what could be their intention here?
Re: Sudo for Windows
#4Yep, it's really happening. Sudo is coming to Windows. It's obviously not just a fork of the linux sudo - there's enough that's different about the permissions structure between OS's that just a straight port wouldn't make sense. But the dream of being able to run commands as admin, in the same terminal window - that's the experience we're finally bringing to users. I've been working on this for the last few months n…
Can you share if this will ever come to Windows 10, or will it be a Windows 11+ exclusive thing?
Re: Sudo for Windows
#5If it were anyone but windows this sentence wouldn't alarm me like it does:
> Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session
Re: Sudo for Windows
#6If it were anyone but windows this sentence wouldn't alarm me like it does: > Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session
Why is that?
Re: Sudo for Windows
#7Yep, it's really happening. Sudo is coming to Windows. It's obviously not just a fork of the linux sudo - there's enough that's different about the permissions structure between OS's that just a straight port wouldn't make sense. But the dream of being able to run commands as admin, in the same terminal window - that's the experience we're finally bringing to users. I've been working on this for the last few months n…
Nice to see the author here! I have to say: I really like whats going on in Windows world from a developer perspective in the recent years. I am a hardcore Linux fanboy for decades but I have to admit that PowerShell, WSL, vscode, Windows Terminal and the recent open source strategy sounds very appealing to me. This is something MS/Win does much better in recent days compared to, for instance, Apple/Mac OS.
I would love to see a tighter integration of winget into Windows. I recently used a fresh MS Windows Server 2023 installation and had a bad day to even get winget installed.
I really hope that the current strategy does not turn out as somewhere between "embrace" and "extend"...
Re: Sudo for Windows
#8Yep, it's really happening. Sudo is coming to Windows. It's obviously not just a fork of the linux sudo - there's enough that's different about the permissions structure between OS's that just a straight port wouldn't make sense. But the dream of being able to run commands as admin, in the same terminal window - that's the experience we're finally bringing to users. I've been working on this for the last few months n…
Can you share if this will ever come to Windows 10, or will it be a Windows 11+ exclusive thing?
Same here. Would love it on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016+.
Re: Sudo for Windows
#9Is this going to be a fully proper implementation with a sudoers config such that something like
sudo c:\some\path\to\normally_needs_elevation_to_function.exe
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#10This will be a very controversial prediction, but mark my words: Windows will eventually use the Linux kernel.