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Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced


5️⃣ Here's the 5th installment of my series of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd. I am pretty sure all of you are well aware of the venerable "sudo" tool that is a key component of most Linux distributions since a long time. At the surface it's a tool that allows an unprivileged user to acquire privileges temporarily, from within their existing login sessions, for just one command, or maybe for a subshell. "sudo" is very very useful, as it…

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