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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago
[-] elvith@feddit.de 10 points 4 months ago

Maybe, but knowing the ease of sudo, I really hate using runas. Most of the time, I just want plain old admin privileges. Mostly I don't care whether I can impersonate another user with this.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Given what MS did to powershell to make *nix commands like ls work (i.e. make them plain aliases to the equivalent powershell commands without any attempt to convert flags) I wouldn't get my hopes up. (Nothing could have prepared me for the disappointment of typing ls -l and getting an error.)

I hate to be a pessimist but $20 says they're just making it so they can technically claim that Windows supports commands Linux users are used to and therefore that Linux users should have no trouble in a Windows environment.

[-] h0rnman@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

runas is trash, to be honest. I've been waiting 30 years for an OS-native tool that allows me to delegate specific commands for specific users to run with specific parameters as admin. Something I can do with sudo (well, sudoers) in 5 minutes is outright impossible on Windows. I'd like to believe that Microsoft will implement this part of sudo, but I'm not gonna hold my breath

[-] roon@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

From the page linked in that article

[-] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

runas.exe cannot start elevated process. Exceptions seem to be MMC snap-ins so you can launch something like lusrmgr.msc or devmgmt.msc with admin account and you will have admin rights.

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