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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

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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] -8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A product key, which allows you to use Windows to its fullest, costs money to Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a myth that people need to stop spreading.

Microsoft is a business. Microsoft is also not stupid. If it cost them more to provide a product than it makes them, they wouldn't provide it. They're is a huge amount of examples of them doing this. They don't provide it because they're nicer guys.

Microsoft uses Windows, and all of it's products, as a vehicle for Azure and advertisers. Everything they do feeds into that one way or another.

Microsoft stopped being a software company some time ago.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I meant it costs money, which goes to Microsoft. It was poorly worded.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That makes sense. 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Most people here pirate it or get the price bundled with their manufacturer. It’s surprisingly easy