One weird trick to get sudo on Windows 10... you'll never eat bananas again!

[coolaj86]

Check this out!!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40321310/151312

I definitely want to add that to webi.

@ryanburnette This brings up the issue that we do need a way to have non-mac/non-linux (meaning Windows 10 only) installer pages.

[coolaj86]

Hmm... after reading further I'm not sure if that's actually a great solution due to issues with handling multiple arguments, spaces in PATH, etc. I'll have to try it out to know for sure.

Here's another idea:

• http://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/

The problem there being:

• no https for downloads (can't use it in accordance with our security practices)
• requires 7z (because 1337 h4x0rz...)

[coolaj86]

Okay, I tried https://stackoverflow.com/a/55643173/151312, and it worked, although with a UAC prompt rather than a password prompt.

sudo.cmd:

@echo off
powershell -Command "Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList '/c cd /d %CD% && %*'"
@echo on

It also opens up a new cmd.exe window and this disappears.

Though... it seems to work.

sudo.cmd dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

[coolaj86]

Pls delete as appropriate, or move to desired. Just wanted to say...
Indeed, it is the “…without opening a GUI to Alt-Click "Run as Administrator"…” is the reason a person would google-it for "Open elevated windows command prompt"

It's comical to me that there are actual tutorials for the task which demonstrate how to access the "Run-as admin". It's like, who cares? Do you really think I'd know what it means to use an "elevated" prompt, if I didn't realize basic O/S utilization

Anyway...
Thanks man!
This is awesome! I've not known of webi-installers prior to finding your thread on stackoverkill about the elevanted prompt/ powershell script

Are all of these (this repo) yours?
Looking forward to further investigation (the others) as time allows! oh, how i do waste the time playing with stuff like this! haha.
:)

Cheers and best regards!

@ajaxStardust

1. You're welcome
2. No, that comment doesn't belong in the Roadmap discussion. I can't move it, but if I could, I'd put it here (One weird trick to get sudo on Windows 10... you'll never eat bananas again! #42).
3. I'm the core maintainer, but there have been many installer contributions from others
   (and these are primarily just installers - I didn't create most of the tools)

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