Running WSL with Root Privileges (Use with Caution)
As a Linux user, you desire full control and access over your Linux environment, even within the confines of Windows. With the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Microsoft has made it possible to run a Linux distribution alongside your Windows instal...
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Anthony Croft
Strange you dont mention the use of SUDO here. Also , by defaul it looks to as through password is unavailable for root in WSL, so editing the wsl.conf wont get you access to the account. But you are a memeber of the sudo group so you can do anything you need to through that command prefix.