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> sudo is certainly not the only player, there's also doas. This shows people can adapt to another name The fact that doas has far fewer users, and examples ev
by JoshTriplett 3y ago
> sudo is certainly not the only player, there's also doas. This shows people can adapt to another name
The fact that doas has far fewer users, and examples everywhere show `sudo xyz` as the way to run xyz as root, shows that people do not adapt to a different name.
Microsoft has been trying, for years, to get developers to use Windows systems. This is another good step towards doing so.
The answer isn't to use a different name; the answer is to actually support most of the sudo interface.
But that said, there's a subset of the sudo interface that would cover the majority of what most people need on a regular basis:
-H (change home directory)
-i (act like a login shell, which may not be meaningful on Windows but could at least be ignored for compatibility)
-E (preserve the environment)
-u (set the user to something other than root)
-g (set the group)
-s (just run a shell)
- snvzz 3y ago>The answer isn't to use a different name; the answer is to actually support most of the sudo interface. The answer is to do either. i.e. the complaint about using the name while offering a different, incompatible interface is valid.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoYes, I agree. I do think it was correct to use the name, though, which means they should be more compatible.