Michał Dec wrote: > > falling back to /C:\COMMAND.COM/ > > On FreeDOS, COMMAND.COM usually lives in C:\FreeDOS\BIN, but that can > also be determined from %PATH% (usually C:\FreeDOS\BIN) or %DOSDIR%\BIN > (also C:\FreeDOS\BIN). On Live media the system drive letter may be > different.
True, but normally %COMSPEC% is set, right? So C:\COMMAND.COM is really meant as a last-ditch fallback. > I'm a little puzzled what it can be used for, because FreeDOS doesn't > have the kind of privilege separation we're familiar with from Windows > NT and Linux Yes, the whole thing is a little tongue-in-cheek joke, and I was hoping the line about SUDOERS.SYS would give that away if it wasn't clear up to that point :) > Can you please tell us more? > > Best regards, > > Michał > > W dniu 18.03.2026 o 10:54, Sijmen J. Mulder via Freedos-user pisze: > > Hi all, > > > > Thought someone might get a chuckle out of this: > > > > https://codeberg.org/sjmulder/sudo.com > > > >> An implementation of sudo for DOS, to run the given command with full > >> privileges. > > Was a good DOS and x86-16 learning experience though! > > > > -Sijmen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
