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I would say "hey that's just copying" but Microsoft is legally incapable of being wrong, or noticing irony so I'll leave it be
If I'm understanding this correctly, it's not even copying. It's apparently just a wrapper for the built-in runas command that's been there since Windows 2000.
@OmnipotentEntity @Pilgrim it's actually not just a wrapper for
runas. There's a lot of other plumbing here to get the console handle you're actually using plumbed to the target application. That's the magic that lets you actually interact with the elevated process in the same terminal.With runas, the target application is just stuck in a separate console window (gross)
So please forgive me if this is a rather naive question. I haven't seriously used Windows in nearly 15 years.
I seem to recall runas being a lot like su, in that you enter the target user's credentials, rather than your own as in sudo. This works because sudo is a setuid executable, and reads from configuration to find out what you're allowed to do as the switched user.
Is the behavior of windows sudo like unix su or unix sudo with regard to the credentials you enter? Can you limit the user to only certain commands?
It brings up a UAC prompt, so any admin's credentials ig
So it's su then, not sudo.
(this is the maintainer)
Exactly. Windows already has this functionality with
runasand this implantation doesn't improve on it at all.It's more complicated than that. 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.
Classic Microsoft. Just change the look and be done with. No need it to actually improve the internals.