[zadjii]

> This looks like one of those KPI fulfilling projects

It actually wasn't. This has been one of the top community requests for the Windows Command Line for years. Literally, for like, the entire 8 years I've been here, we've been talking about if there was a way to do Sudo for Windows.

This was done because it makes developers happy, plain and simple. If that's a KPI, then that's the one we're optimizing for.

[Repulsion9513]

There are several ways to do sudo for Windows already, to the extent this program does sudo for Windows.

In other words, you're not actually solving the reason people are asking you for sudo for Windows. How do I configure my sudoers policy to allow someone to run a specific application (and only that application) through sudo? THAT is the magic of sudo. Sudo is not just "use your own password for root" like you seem to think it is.

[zadjii]

I live by a one step at a time philosophy. It's better to make some incremental progress here, now, and open the door for future progress in this space too. Just like the Terminal - what we're putting out here in the first versions is just the first thing we feel comfortable with people using. We've got lots of ideas for more things to add, just, one step at a time :)

[ziml77]

I don't know why people are so negative on this project. I already know about gsudo and yet I was still happy to see an official solution! Even if it were to never evolve, not having to pull a third-party executable in is always nice.

[zadjii]

Thanks :)

I'd say waking up today to all this... negativity? was kinda a bummer. We've been working hard on something that people (myself included) have been asking for _for years_.

Like, obviously, it's not perfect out of the gate. That's fine! It was a haul enough to ship this in any form. Now that it's out there, we can make more and more improvements. One step at a time.

Sometimes, I just need a break from the internet I guess.

[Repulsion9513]

Because it isn't sudo. It's a marketing effort stealing the name of sudo for a completely different technology that is only tangentially related to sudo.

[pjmlp]

Surely by people trying to do UNIX on Windows.

[vips7L]

What is different about sudo vs runas?

[lIl-IIIl]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/#how-is-sudo-...

[marwis]

Seems like it could be done by adding new features/flags to runas?

And then maybe creating alias to sudo in PowerShell like it does for other things.