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I'm talking about the one-time initial setup of the Tailscale client software.

Can you download and run Tailscale on a Windows client without Administrative access to install the software (setup the virtual NIC)? An SSH client is just a user-space app.

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no but you also wouldn't want to allow that. just like you wouldn't want to expose a SSH socket to the world in most cases.

I have explained why I stated that 'setup of [Tailscale] typically requires administrative intervention'.

I appreciate that your approach is the more secure standard practice, yet want to make others aware of the edge cases here on a site called Hacker News rather than something like StackOverflow, where 'this is the way' reigns supreme.

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