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I tried sudo for Windows and was left thoroughly blue-balled. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

so it's basically the same thing as sudo as long as you don't do nopasswd in sudoers?

sounds like a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On Linux it's a CLI privilege escalation program, having a GUI pop up when you can just take user input from the terminal the user is already using is kinda...
There's a reason why pkexec is a separate thing from sudo on Linux. Two separate programs that handle two separate tasks. Sudo is intended for CLI. pkexec is intended for GUI applications and is provided by the Polkit framework. It's that pointless work flow slow down you hate to see.