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Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by SLWW »

JaggedJax wrote: post #265
zadjii wrote: post #2

Yep, 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…

The real question is, where will incidents be reported to if you're not in the sudoers file?

I still to this day feel like I'm being snitched on, even if I own the hardware directly.

Probably some MS server =|

Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by [deleted] »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #189
dwattttt wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Admin"'s identity is the resource you're asking permissions to use. If don't want identities, are you going to manually authorize every file that needs to be interacted with? For a recursive delete of thousands of files?

You would authorize deletion in a specific directory.

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Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by numpad0 »

JaggedJax wrote: post #265
zadjii wrote: post #2

Yep, 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…

The real question is, where will incidents be reported to if you're not in the sudoers file?

You'll be asked to enable .NET and Simple TCPIP services, and a mailbox file created under C:\ will open on Notepad every logins thereafter.

Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by stuaxo »

zadjii wrote: post #2

Yep, 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…

This is good, while I know RunAS exists, I'm more likely to run another terminal with admin than learn how to use it, if sudo is there I'll use that.

Every little bit of friction removed is a good thing.

Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by alpb »

oleg_antonyan wrote: post #284

One day they'll replace the kernel with Linux and nobody notices

Unlikely. Windows is all about compatibility and that includes all the weird things accumulated in windows over the decades. There is not a real incentive to change this. Think of all the gamers, custom hardware like ATMs and commercial terminals that run on Windows. That’s a huge market.

Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by benrutter »

msla wrote: post #235
fortran77 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run Windows 11. It has first-class support for Linux, with WSL, and the Windows Environment has first-class support for NVIDA graphics, popular productivity and entertainment software. It's reliable, stable, and performs well, with commercial support and scheduled major and minor updates. It's consistant. I can develop software for Windows 11 and be sure that everyone else with Windows 11 can run it.

Windows 11 has ads in its file manager, right?

I've heard this as well, but I run windows 11 for work, and can confirm the file manager has no ads in it (I don't know if there are alternative versions of Windows 11 that do, but it definitely isn't true as a blanket statement)

Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by denysvitali »

alpb wrote: post #286
oleg_antonyan wrote: post #284

One day they'll replace the kernel with Linux and nobody notices

Unlikely. Windows is all about compatibility and that includes all the weird things accumulated in windows over the decades. There is not a real incentive to change this. Think of all the gamers, custom hardware like ATMs and commercial terminals that run on Windows. That’s a huge market.

Linux + Wine

Re: Sudo for Windows

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Post by Pikamander2 »

JaggedJax wrote: post #265
zadjii wrote: post #2

Yep, 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…

The real question is, where will incidents be reported to if you're not in the sudoers file?

Santa Claus, if XKCD is to be believed

https://xkcd.com/838/

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