Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows

Technology@lemmy.world – 135 points – 8 months ago

devblogs.microsoft.com

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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I hate searching for sway config stuff using DDG (which returns Bing results).

Chances are never zero that that there is an outdated MS product with the same name of what you're searching.

I feel this, I type swaywm instead now

Hold up. DDG returns Bing results? TIL. Is that true? How do we know? Do they state this, themselves?

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

Wow okay. It's not their only source, which I came to believe. That's good, then. Thank you for the link and quote!