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Can't start Windows Terminal as administrator #4693

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JekRock opened this issue Feb 22, 2020 · 5 comments
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Can't start Windows Terminal as administrator #4693

JekRock opened this issue Feb 22, 2020 · 5 comments
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Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.

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JekRock commented Feb 22, 2020

Environment

Windows build number: 10.0.18363.0
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 0.9.433.0

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install Windows Terminal from Microsoft Store
  2. Run Windows Terminal as administrator from a non-administrator user

Expected behavior

Windows Terminal starts with administrator rights.

Actual behavior

Windows asks to enter an administrator password twice and then show the following error

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@ghost ghost added Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements labels Feb 22, 2020
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Is your administrator account different from your default user account? If so, this is #4217.

@DHowett-MSFT DHowett-MSFT added the Needs-Author-Feedback The original author of the issue/PR needs to come back and respond to something label Feb 24, 2020
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JekRock commented Feb 24, 2020

Yes, the administrator account is different from the logged-in user account.

@ghost ghost added Needs-Attention The core contributors need to come back around and look at this ASAP. and removed Needs-Author-Feedback The original author of the issue/PR needs to come back and respond to something labels Feb 24, 2020
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pilgi3 commented Feb 24, 2020

I have the same issue - and yes my administrator account is different from the logged-in user account too!

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Fantastic, thanks for following up. I'm gonna close this as a duplicate then. /dup #4217

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ghost commented Feb 24, 2020

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

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@ghost ghost added Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing. and removed Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements Needs-Attention The core contributors need to come back around and look at this ASAP. labels Feb 24, 2020
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