Give administrator privileges to tab

[Fischchen]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

A possibility to change certain tabs to administrator rights.
Useful when you have to deal with package managers and similar.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

An entry for that functionality in the CTL+SHIFT+P menu, which changes the current tab to administrator, or if that's not possible, creates a new one with administrator privileges.

[zadjii-msft]

This is something you can kinda already do today, but maybe not that conveniently. As of 1.13, you can mark a profile as requiring elevation (admin rights), with elevate:true. You can also use that in a newTab action to open that profile elevated. So you could add something like:

        { "icon": "\uEA18", "command": { "action": "newTab", "elevate": true, "profile": "foo" } },

to open your foo profile as admin. Or just Ctrl+Click on the entry in the dropdown.

However, what you really want is "duplicate the current tab, with admin permission", and that's not tracked right now, I don't think. #10232 is sorta like it, but not exactly what I'm looking for. splitPane has splitMode: duplicate, maybe we need a flag like that for newTab (or just let duplicateTab accept the rest of a NewTerminalArgs

[vertigo220]

Would it be possible to add a Terminal-specific command "sudo" so the user could type that, which would instruct Terminal to duplicate the tab as admin?

[zadjii-msft]

You know, I might just close this as /dup https://github.com/microsoft/sudo. Honestly, that's just the easiest user experience over all.

(we'll work on shipping that out-of-band from the OS: microsoft/sudo#57)

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