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Sudo is coming to windows (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by starman to c/[email protected]
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Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/02/08/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26052-canary-and-dev-channels/

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We already had this function, they just made sudo into an alias of:

runas /user:Administrator
[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

No, that required the local admin account to have a password, which is usually unset (and the account is also locked). This uses the UAC system instead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

runas will run as whatever account you specify, so you can absolutely use it to run something as a domain admin account

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I think they meant you could use any account that is an admin with runas to elevate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

then, use gsudo. it uses uac and even has convinience features from linux sudo like maintaing an open session for passwordless elevation for a couple of minutes after the password is entered.