[Feature] Global app installation with non-Administrator accounts

[Skyb0rg007]

Feature Request

scoop makes the following two assumptions about installation

1. scoop should not be installed on the Administrator account
2. Installing an app globally should be done via sudo

However this setup does not work properly if the Windows system only has the Administrator account and a non-Administrator account

• sudo exits with an error because you are not part of the Administrator group
• Launching an Administrator powershell session does not include scoop on the $env:PATH
• Running scoop in an Administrator shell through its full path causes Git fatal errors concerning the ownership of repos

Describe the solution you'd like

Some official documentation on how to install applications globally if you are not an Administrator (but have access to the Admin account itself)

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Manually adding scoop to the system environment variables and marking git's safe.directory '*' system-wide
  • This is not listed as a supported option, and would need to be manually removed if scoop is uninstalled
• Commenting-out the Administrator check from sudo
  • The scoop program is not on the Administrator path, so it still causes a command not found error
• Installing scoop a second time as Administrator
  • The installation script warns against this
  • "Unless you know what you are doing" does not apply to me

[Ra2-IFV]

https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/blob/master/libexec/scoop-config.ps1
Set root_path in ~/.config/scoop/config.json

[Skyb0rg007]

Apologies, but I'm not sure how that fixes the issue. I have my scoop directory at %LOCALAPPDATA%\scoop (as shown in the config file) - the issue only occurs when I want to install an app globally at C:\ProgramData\scoop.

[Ra2-IFV]

yeah this directory requires admin privileges, so set to somewhere else

On June 24, 2024 1:18:45 AM UTC, Skye Soss @.***> wrote:

Apologies, but I'm not sure how that fixes the issue. I have my scoop directory at %LOCALAPPDATA%\scoop (as shown in the config file) - the issue only occurs when I want to install an app globally at C:\ProgramData\scoop.

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[Skyb0rg007]

This issue only concerns globally installed applications (scoop install <app> --global) or nonportable apps that require admin permissions (scoop install games/epic-games-launcher).

If the scoop user is an Administrator, they can use sudo (scoop install sudo) to gain permissions for that one installation. However the problem occurs when the scoop user is not an Administrator (but knows the Administrator password).

[Ra2-IFV]

so I misunderstood your question... Sorry. Seems the sudo package in scoop does not really work like the sudo utility in linux, due to varieties between operating systems. Windows and Powershell have the ability to run as other user, you can checkhere, and use your admin account to run powershell first, then run scoop to install apps.
If sudo package can add a option to switch a admin account to run commands(similar to linux), that would be great.