Topic: privilege-elevation

• Privilege elevation compared: sudo, doas, UAC, runas and AIX RBAC — and how to detect it

  sudo, doas, Windows UAC and macOS's admin group all answer the same question — is this session allowed to act as an administrator — with different mechanisms and different ways for a script to check the answer before attempting a privileged action.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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