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Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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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

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The security problem has been internally fixed and will be available in the next release
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.
It brings up UAC instead of having you input the password

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and i'm thinking about switching to doas.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Its much lighter, sudo goes outside of its intended purpose

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honest question: what am I missing out on with sudo?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would love to use a smaller, single-user multi-account, version of sudo. If (on Debian based) doas can remember I entered the password a command ago in the same bash terminal, and had more adoption/eyes on it, then I'd use it.

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