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Windows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you run native Linux applications on Windows

  • WSL 1 uses a translation layer to translate Linux syscalls to Windows syscalls
  • WSL 2 uses lightweight utility virtual machine to run Linux apps

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gerardog
gerardog commented Feb 9, 2020

I've already heard opinions like: "I can not use this on the enterpise." or "This other sudo is just a few lines RunAs script that I can audit myself." (Sure, but building a feature-rich sudo takes far more lines than that.) and the next one probably will be: "I won't run as administrator something from a nobody on the internet."

This is a trust problem. And I cannot create trust by myself.

michaeltreat
michaeltreat commented Apr 23, 2019

Somewhere in the guide, when talking about Permissions, I made it clear that there were not any restrictions around permissions, and that users shouldn't have permission issues out of the box (ootb).

But that's incorrect, at least in my case. With a basic guide setup, users cannot navigate to Cookies or other directories on their User/user path. Can someone please try this on their machine with

lucasvc
lucasvc commented Feb 19, 2020

I have a shortcut on my shell:startup to open Pageant with my key and after start wsl-ssh-pageant using WSL socket:

"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pageant.exe" "C:\Users\lucsavc\lucsavc.ppk" -c "C:\Users\lucsavc\software\wsl-ssh-pageant\wsl-ssh-pageant-amd64-gui.exe" --systray --wsl "%TMPDIR%\wsl-ssh-pageant.sock"

When shuting down the computer normally, seems that systray application i

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