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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

Edit:

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] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sudo already exists, is it okay to just name a different program by the same name?

Guess which one Bing search will try harder to return.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I hate searching for sway config stuff using DDG (which returns Bing results).

Chances are never zero that that there is an outdated MS product with the same name of what you're searching.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I feel this, I type swaywm instead now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hold up. DDG returns Bing results? TIL. Is that true? How do we know? Do they state this, themselves?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Wow okay. It's not their only source, which I came to believe. That's good, then. Thank you for the link and quote!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They are already doing it for other commands. Eg curl.