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systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So there would be no practical benefits of switching?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It gets rid of one more SUID binary. That's always a win for security.

Sudo probably is way more comfortable to use and has way more configurable, too -- that usually does not help to make a tool secure either:-)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While it may be true that getting rid of SUID binary is ideal, widening systemd’s security surface area is much more concerning to me than the sudo binary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This has already been possible, the patch modifying run.c to be able to do this is not even 400 lines long and was mostly just exposing its feature in a different way. (the entire patch was <1.5k lines, with most being docs, tests and a bit of plumbing for the colored terminal)