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"Run0" as a Sudo Replacement


This Mastodon stream from Lennart Poettering describes a sudo replacement — called run0 — that will be part of the upcoming systemd 256 release. It takes a rather different approach to the execution of privileged commands, avoiding the use of setuid (which he calls "SUID") permissions entirely.

This Mastodon stream from Lennart Poettering describes a sudo replacement — called run0 — that will be part of the upcoming systemd 256 release. It takes a rather different approach to the execution of privileged commands, avoiding the use of setuid (which he calls "SUID") permissions entirely. Let's throw out the concept of SUID on the dump of UNIX' bad ideas.

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