Open-sourcing Sudo for Windows

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hey everyone I'm mikee greezy and today on open Microsoft we're going to talk about pseudo for Windows for those who don't know last build I open sourced pseudo for Windows so we're gonna have Jordy here and we're going to talk about what pseudo for Windows [Music] is hey Jordy how's it going I'm doing well how are you good I hear that we uh open sourced pseudo recently can you tell me a little bit more about that what what does that mean pseudo for Windows yeah so if you ever heard of pseudo we've basically kind of taken the same thing and introduced it to Windows and like you just said we open sourced it very recently I think about a week ago which is great um essentially it's a way for you to uh Elevate processes from an unelevated console so if you're familiar if you're in terminal when you run something um if you need it to be elevated a typical flow today before pseudo I guess would be let me go open a brand new terminal let me open it as elevated and then let me run something as admin so what we've done with pseudo is we've brought that familiar feel from other operating systems and we've introduced it to Windows and you can actually directly go ahead and uh Elevate things from your mid line so uh if you're taking a look at my terminal right now um if you've gone ahead and enabled this in the latest version of os uh you can go ahead and run pseudo so Mike should we should we try it out do a little example do for all right do it seems like the canonical pseudo example that I've seen is something to do with making sandwiches so let's run with that and that'll be our example here so here let me just point your focus we're in terminal right but we are unelevated fully unelevated uh and you'll see as much when I try to run this program this Nifty program I've created called make sandwich tells me okay this program needs to be run as administrator well typically what I'd have to do now is open a new terminal at least in my flow and I'd have to run that new terminal as admin and then get back to the context and then run make sandwich and it would it would run what we can do today if I spell it correctly is we can do pseudo make sandwich so I'm telling uh everyone or I'm telling I guess the process let's run elevated uh a UAC pops up which I'm not sure if you're able to see that UAC but I just clicked yes to the UAC the typical flow for admin elevation right uh and now you can see these pretty sandwiches are getting printed to the console um which is a great terminal feature as well with the ner font I've got so that is the inline configuration there's multiple configurations for pseudo let me just show that to you and we can do this in inline mode so inline mode is kind of what folks are familiar with from operating systems right where you elevate something um and it goes into multiple modes but we have three different configurations and you can choose which of those configurations you want so right now I'm running in inline mode and you'll see everything shows up in the same window from where I launched pseudo cool great so it's it's just pseudo for Windows yeah pretty much if you want to go ahead and change the configuration options you can do that from the settings but you can also do it in line and it's actually kind of a neat trick that I like to do so again pseudo config uh will tell you what mode you're in but you can actually enable other modes and so I think if I do double pseudo yeah there we go I can either disable it which I don't want to do that um but I do want to enable it maybe in a different mode um and I think you know this might this may or this may not work let's see what happens if I click new window I'm getting a UAC which I don't think you see as again but okay so invalid value ah live demo that's okay I put in the wrong thing it's Force new window so if I just go in take what I did before for and just do Force new window now it should there we go amazing and I click yes and now it'll tell me that I'm in force new Window mode since I'm just sharing this one window I won't Elevate like this but you'd imagine those sandwiches that we saw those would show up in a new window in that configuration so that might be more similar to um run as for example got it well this is fantastic so now it's open source and we can just go look get that yes so we have an awesome GitHub repository and you should be able to check out the code which is great A few months ago we introduced the GitHub repo right and we had a lot of excitement lots of folks going there but we hadn't actually added the source code uh and then live at build on stage um you actually open sourced it which was very fun um and so we have added the source code and you can now check out our repository and um definitely feel free to make any contribution ions and write up any future requests things that you might want to see any improvements that uh we can bring to you with pseudo to really help you stay in the flow because this is something we introduced to help developers stay in the flow it's something that uh has been asked for for a really long time and so now we have a platform as well right where we can more easily hear the things that people want to add to pseudo uh and we can go ahead and prioritize that so I see right now you're you're looking through the code and you're a bit more familiar with it than than I am but there it is right and this is essentially what I was running uh and you can see all the things that we're doing under the hood which is pretty cool oh yeah and it's all in Rust which is pretty cool that a part of Windows is written in Rust yes that is very cool uh there's been lots of comments about that I'm very excited about it I honestly am not very familiar with rust so this is my first project where I am now GNA be looking into R which is very exciting well this is super cool Jordy yeah thank you so much is there anything else we want from the community no just go ahead and check out Pudo let us know how it works for you um we'd love to get your feedback and any feature requests any contributions we're very active on the repository on GitHub so that's all we got awesome thanks for taking this time Jordy awesome thanks Mike see you around see you