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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by lj3 on Sunday May 29, 2016 @09:00PM (#11799009)
> Definitely worked with just apt-get for me.

The install worked, but running it was a different story. It would spit out an error after every command. Like I said, this was a while back. It's probably fixed now.

> Huh? It does not run as root by default.

When I run bash.exe, I'm greeted with this prompt

  root@DESKTOP-F7NGQJX:~# pwd
  /root
What do you see?
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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by kyriakos on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:26PM (#11799397)
The first version only run as root. From the second release they added user creation when installing.
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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by JdeBP on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @09:55AM (#11806494)
Actually, the first version never ran as root. It always ran as you, incorrectly reporting the user account.
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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by lj3 on Monday May 30, 2016 @12:12AM (#11799514)
Great! Maybe I should remove it and re-install and see if I can trigger that.
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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by pugwash on Monday May 30, 2016 @07:10PM (#11803733)
No need, you can use lxrun /setdefaultuser to change it.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/user_suppor...

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Re:Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? by JorgeGT on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:01PM (#11799324)
In the latest build the installation script asks you to create an Unix user that becomes the default user (with sudo rights).
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