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Now that Win11 has sudo... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] [email protected] 89 points 4 months ago

Windows doesn't have sudo, Windows has a thing they're calling sudo.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago

It's basically runas, but then it pops up the UAC prompt and you have to give admin credentials ๐Ÿ˜’... runas is much easier, you give the creds in a command line, no windows poping up, nothing, it just works.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

It is a bit like pkexec which also brings up a graphical password prompt.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Exactly... which is NOT sudo.

[-] xlash123 6 points 4 months ago

That's an odd choice... If it was possible all along to just ask for a a password on the command line, why make it popup a UAC prompt? These are developers using it after all.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Devs can and have used runas in the past, that's nothing new, and it does the job quite well. This new thing is just a fad if you ask me, "every OS on the planet has it and Linux is kinda getting traction, plus we're on team FOSS now and all that, so why not make our own version of sudo, but actually make it more complicated to use than runas ๐Ÿ‘" ๐Ÿ˜’... I mean, they always do shit like this, take some good idea and turn it into crap, but everyone buys into the idea. Why? Cuz they're MS ๐Ÿ˜’.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I mean yeah, but also passwordless auth is a good thing. Since it hooks into UAC it hooks into windows hello which can be biometric.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You can do that in Linux too, that's nothing new, been around for at least 10 years or so.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. (I wasn't the one who downvoted you, by the way.)

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