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Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows
(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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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.
Yep. It's basically an alias for:
If you want to open a new command line window with admin privs you can always do:
Which is of course on Linux this would kinda be like running:
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.
Nice.