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It's like they wanted sudo and user accounts with arbitrary permissions but had no idea how to do that, so they did UAC and this stuff instead.
by seanp2k2 12y ago
It's like they wanted sudo and user accounts with arbitrary permissions but had no idea how to do that, so they did UAC and this stuff instead.
- viccuad 12y agohow was the saying, "Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"..
- Aloha 12y agoWindows has an analogy to sudo, called runas UAC is designed to solve a different problem, users on Windows historically ran as administrator, and much legacy software requires it, UAC is designed to provide an apparent administrator environment to the software but catch what the software is using, and give the user a chance to approve privilege escalation.
- antod 12y agorunas is more of a su analogy than a sudo one.
- Aloha 12y agoI disagree, the -u option for sudo gives you nearly identical functionality.
- antod 12y agoThe reason su is a better runas analogy than sudo is that it has a similar scope and similar purpose. While it does overlap su/runas functionality, sudo has a much larger superset of features and policy configuration that su and runas simply don't have.