While playing with Raku and rakubrew on Windows recently, I encountered more than one stumbling block. One stuck out in particular. Did you know that, by default, Windows PowerShell doesn’t allow normal users to run scripts? Coming from a Unix background, that surprised me. You might come across this issue when setting up rakubrew in Windows PowerShell, hence I thought I’d share my solution.
The execution policy isn’t a security system that restricts user actions. For example, users can easily bypass a policy by typing the script contents at the command line when they cannot run a script. Instead, the execution policy helps users to set basic rules and prevents them from violating them unintentionally.
Like the popup you get when you paste a command with new lines in it. It doesnt stop you from pasting a command that would run immediately, but it warns you that what you paste will immediately run.
Its a safety feature not a security feature.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_execution_policies?view=powershell-7.4
Like the popup you get when you paste a command with new lines in it. It doesnt stop you from pasting a command that would run immediately, but it warns you that what you paste will immediately run.
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