I don’t think i need to explain how it works, should i ?

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    9 months ago

    sudo can only be elevated via the User Account Control (UAC) security feature designed to protect the operating system from unauthorized changes using verification prompt.

    Doesn’t that defeat the entire fucking purpose of sudo?

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        9 months ago

        “kind of neat” is being able to winrm into a machine without having to run a VNC session in parallel simply to click the popup. Taking the authentication prompt outside the shell session is… honestly, completely on brand for Microsoft.