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Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw)Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw)Posted Nov 12, 2009 22:15 UTC (Thu) by Kit (guest, #55925)In reply to: Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw) by DOT Parent article: Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw)
>The hack I'm talking about is that Microsoft's system actually
>runs the app as another user, giving the app all the privileges >that that other user has.
That's the way sudo works, which before PolicyKit was generally the method of choice for administrative tasks in GUIs on *nix (along with su).
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