microsoft
Support TTY mode
The biggest problem with Windows's requirement to run some commands/operations/RPC in an "elevated" context is that it is not possible to run this in a TTY. Currently this tool is just a convenience script to make it a bit less painful to do elevated operations, it does not enable it to be used in a TTY setting, and as such does not have one of the most basic functionality of the *nix sudo tool.
I appreciate that Win32's checkered history in the TTY department makes this difficult to implement, but it should at least be clarified that this is a limitation since it's called "sudo", and anyone familiar with the *nix tool might reasonably assume it has this basic functionality.
Yes, I agree with this. I spend a fair amount of time SSHed from my desk into WSL running on remote lab-bench computers. Sometimes I need to do things that require elevation, like binding USB devices to usbipd or modifying Hyper-v configurations. It's a pain to have to switch from SSH to remote-desktop everytime I need to run anything with elevated permissions, and I'd love to see sudo provide some alternative implementation.
Wait, just so I'm sure - is this basically just the same as #7? "I want to be able to enter my creds straight away in the terminal"?
Another interpretation of "TTY mode" would be, that sudo starts the program, that it is supposed to run, in a new pseudo TTY. That is what sudo on linux does.
If I run tty && sudo tty on Linux, I get this output:
/dev/pts/0
/dev/pts/1
The man(ual) page of tty says: "tty - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input".
So the second instance of the tty program runs in a different pseudo TTY.
Windows also has pseudo TTYs. So sudo for Windows could do the same. But I don't know what the advantage is, of running the elevated command in a new pseudo TTY.
But I guess, the author of this feature request meant, what you said, @zadjii-msft:
Wait, just so I'm sure - is this basically just the same as #7? "I want to be able to enter my creds straight away in the terminal"?
@j0le What I meant is what is discussed in #7. I didn't mean the command tty but the concept of a TTY (often just referred to as a PTY nowadays since we usually don't actually use a terminal connected through a RS-232 port).
The PTY on Windows is a fairly recent thing (unless you've delved into hacks like ConEmu), and it still has quite a few quirks. But it's getting to a point where it might be able to achieve feature parity with a 1970's terminal in the not too distant future (hopefully).
Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #7 for more discussion.
/dup #7
