ibex deploy: speed up install by reducing password/credential entering [Timebox: 2.5 days]

[FreddieAkeroyd]

A lot of time during a deploy can be spent typing in passwords, particularly to evevate privileges. Investigate if there is a way to cache passwords and improve this. For elevated operations,

• it might be we can use use CreateProcessWithLogonW() to spawn a process to pipe admin commands to, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1973376/how-to-get-standard-output-from-createprocesswithlogonw
• maybe look at the gsudo command for ideas.

Planning

Time in recording of planning meeting: 01h18m 2024/11/28
19/12/2024 - agreed to push to next PI
planning 00:09 2025/03/06

[Tom-Willemsen]

Note for future: when all instruments are on windows>=24H2 we might be able to use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-settings/sudo/ instead, as MS has finally implemented sudo in recent Windows 11 versions.