We already have runas for years now.
This looks like one of those KPI fulfilling projects.
Sudo for Windows
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#22https://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?
You can edit the issue to be whatever you want later. But I’ve never seen anyone pre-reserve issue numbers like this.
We've actually done that for a few years on the Terminal repo. It's great for things like megathreads / scenarios / epics. For example, I can tell you off the top of my head that microsoft/terminal#8888 is for "quake mode", and #4000 is the extensions thread.
We even used to have a bot that would auto-camp anything that was a multiple of 1000 or 1111 :D
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#23Next: systemd for windows?
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#24This will be a very controversial prediction, but mark my words: Windows will eventually use the Linux kernel.
I don’t disagree. How I think it will happen: Backwards compatibility will start to stray at Microsoft (their last bastion), leading to WINE becoming the go to tool for backwards compat support. Microsoft will create a linux variant or maybe just a DE and the rest will be history (just as Libre Office has begun to supersede MS Office). It is a matter of will and time that C-Suite will want to eliminate labor around Windows to maximize profits as it becomes more and more hardened in it’s feature set. Why maintain when you can utilize FOSS?
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#25Well, sudo for Windows has been a thing for, like, a few years now?... https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo Not sure if this is the same thing, but this definitely should have shipped with the very first implementation of "oh, sure, you're an Administrator, but not really, since we're ignoring that bit" a.k.a. User Account Control. That would have saved about a metric ton of misguided "here's how to turn off UAC" tutori…
gsudo is great! It's got a lot of features for power users, it's got a great community, and I can't recommend it highly enough. There's room here for us to be better together - Sudo for Windows can cover a number of in-box scenarios, with OS-side support for things like GPO, event logging, etc. But then for power users who need access to some of the wilder features of gsudo (running as TrustedInstaller?), that's always available too.
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#26Yep, 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…
Does the UAC prompt always say "Verified publisher: Microsoft"? Even without controlling stdin, malware at medium integrity could prompt to run a malicious command, and users will only see Microsoft's good name in the popup.
Does this elevate within your own account token (i.e. will not work for non-Administrator users), or does it actually switch user (e.g. to LOCAL SYSTEM)?
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#27Interesting. I've been pretty happy with all the Unix-related updates they've put out lately. WSL has been a godsend and the new terminal and powershell have worked a treat. Glad they seem to be continuing with it.
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#29Next: systemd for windows?
Already there. Windows has had services for a long time managed pretty similarly to systemd/launchd.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you share if this will ever come to Windows 10, or will it be a Windows 11+ exclusive thing?
I'm not even sure Win11 is on my company roadmap, much less anything cutting edge like an insiders release. Windows 10 Enterprise compatibility is pretty much required for widespread adoption of Sudo for Windows.
Windows 10 is EOl next year. I would bet your company has plans to move to 11 at some point in the near future. I work with customers daily to help to move to 11