[v15] devicetrust: don't invoke powershell when reading system information #50455
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The device trust web flow can result in a web browser launching Teleport Connect (which launches tsh, which in turn launches powershell).
Some antivirus solutions flag cases where a powershell process is a descendent of a web browser process. In order to avoid being blocked by the antivirus software, we want to read system information directly instead of via powershell.
Backports #50372
Changelog: Fixed an issue that could cause some antivirus tools to block Teleport's Device
Trust feature on Windows machines.