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Yes, and I believe enabling it requires administrative rights so the risk to a lot of organizations with locked down Windows installs is minimal unless they’ve
by legobmw99 5y ago
Yes, and I believe enabling it requires administrative rights so the risk to a lot of organizations with locked down Windows installs is minimal unless they’ve enabled WSL intentionally
- willis936 5y agoPretty much all government contractors use windows for bureaucratic and spying purposes. Good luck convincing your security-minded boss to let you have a linux playground when it increases attack surface area.
- dudus 5y agoI got WSL setup in my computer without the admin rights.
- tyingq 5y agoThat's interesting. The mainline builds seem to require running dism.exe with admin rights, and the preview builds require running "wsl.exe --install" with admin rights. Curious how you got around that.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoSure you didn't just get it without UAC? If you actually don't have admin rights, was this WSL1?
- dudus 5y agoI honestly don't remember how I did it. But I have WSL2 with ubuntu. I know ubuntu I downloaded from the windows app store.