Please add multi-user support for wsl
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Description
Currently WSL has to be seperately installed for each user on a machine. That kind of wastes Linux's potential and is a big nuisance for sysadmins. You either have to install it manually for every individual user on that machine, or you risk letting them install it themselves thereby automatically granting them full admin rights for that linux subsystem.
A multiuser installation, installing WSL for all users on that machine, but only granting actual admin (sudo) rights to the system admins is desperately needed.
please see comments on the closed post #2979, for feedback from other users on that issue
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading this issue and the feedback referenced from closed issue #2979, then review the 61-comment discussion for agreed requirements. Define how WSL would be installed for all machine users while limiting sudo rights to system administrators; no implementation files or tests are identified, so completion criteria would need to be established first.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100