• w2tpmf@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We already had this function, they just made sudo into an alias of:

    runas /user:Administrator
    
    • r4indeer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      No, that required the local admin account to have a password, which is usually unset (and the account is also locked). This uses the UAC system instead.

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        9 months ago

        runas will run as whatever account you specify, so you can absolutely use it to run something as a domain admin account

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        9 months ago

        then, use gsudo. it uses uac and even has convinience features from linux sudo like maintaing an open session for passwordless elevation for a couple of minutes after the password is entered.