Please elevate session, or spawn elevated session as necessary.
Open
0 - Triaging
Enhancement
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 11.5k
- Forks
- 960
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
I cannot express how frustrating it is to be working in a normal powershell session and then need to install something via cinst only to get a security exception. Please elevate the session when necessary with RunAs or Invoke-Command -Verb when necessary.
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no repository files or tests; start by tracing the cinst command path and reviewing how a normal PowerShell session handles the requested elevation. Compare the existing behavior with the mentioned RunAs or Invoke-Command -Verb approaches, with done defined as elevating or spawning an elevated session when necessary.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100