WSL-Hello-sudo VS rdpwrap

Well, `sudo` is a *nix binary, so Linux and macOS are your most popular options here.

Fingerprint authentication for sudo was enabled by default on my Manjaro install after I enrolled a fingerprint so I guess popular Linux distributions configure it automatically. If yours doesn't, try the configuration methods on this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fprint or here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1015416/use-fingerprint-auth... or consult your operating system's documentation.

The big difference is that you need "pam_fprintd.so" instead of "pam_tid". On Ubuntu (or derived, probably), running "sudo pam-auth-update" will allow you to configure fingerprint authentication without needing to manually edit system files.

Do note that if you use a more exotic window manager, any fancy visual sudo prompts may not know how to deal with such a system.

If you're on Windows and want WSL with Windows Hello, there's this tool: https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo which is a PAM library that will call into Windows Hello from WSL. Windows Hello should in turn support your fingerprint reader or other biometric authentication system configured for your PC.

What kind of prompt is this? It looks like Windows Terminal running Bash, but are the icons PNGs (windows + home), or a specific type-face rendering emoji?

https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo/blob/master/de...

Similarly for WSL2 using Windows Hello:

https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo

Try this if you want to enable the remote desktop server on the home edition: https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap

You didn’t mention which OS your parents run, but if it’s Windows then you can use RDP (Remote Desktop Host). The normal RDP program that comes pre-installed on a non-server version of windows doesn’t allow concurrent users (I.e. if you were to open an RDP session while one of your parents was using the computer, it would log them off in order to log you in). However, someone created a workaround on GitHub…I installed it and it works great! Only issue is you have to remember to sign out EVERYtime otherwise it tends to just create new log in sessions for each user.

i use home win11 with https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap/releases it work great

The same post also mentions another open source software that supposedly do the same thing without patching the system. But it looks unmaintained 2018 and the readme mentions that it could not work with newer Windows 10 versions. Also this is definitely violating the EULA as well.

There's https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap with which you can enable remote desktop on a Home edition of Windows.

The Aster software is really interesing! I am kinda looking for a simultanous workstation use. I used to use [this](https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap) hack that allows simultaneus RDP sessions. Not ideal for gaming but for work stuff is good. Might try this out when I build a workstation for work so my team can remote connect and work on their own windows accounts on the workstation, at the same time. But RDP sucks, Sunshine would outperform this. But its better because i dont need to have multiple Sunshine instances running per account (i think thats what would be needed for seperated simultaneous users).

Install rdpwrap, it makes rdp work on home edititions.

You could also just use RDP, you'll probably need this wrapper: https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap