Root access restriction

[RonNahum1]

we need to restricting root access for users using WSL2.

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Logs are required for review from WSL team

If this a feature request, please reply with '/feature'. If this is a question, reply with '/question'.
Otherwise please attach logs by following the instructions below, your issue will not be reviewed unless they are added. These logs will help us understand what is going on in your machine.

How to collect WSL logs

Download and execute collect-wsl-logs.ps1 in an administrative powershell prompt:

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/WSL/master/diagnostics/collect-wsl-logs.ps1" -OutFile collect-wsl-logs.ps1
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
.\collect-wsl-logs.ps1

The scipt will output the path of the log file once done.

Once completed please upload the output files to this Github issue.

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[RonNahum1]

/feature Thanks, Ron

[github-actions]

Diagnostic information

Found '/feature', adding tag 'feature'

[OneBlue]

we need to restricting root access for users using WSL2.

Could you give us more details on what the scenario is and why you want to block root access ?

[RonNahum1]

we need to restricting root access for users using WSL2.

Could you give us more details on what the scenario is and why you want to block root access ?

we need to restrict access to the end users sense we don't want them to change OS configuration.