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Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

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466 points CoolCold | 5 comments | 29 Apr 24 23:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.919s | source
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abridgett ◴[30 Apr 24 16:33 UTC] No.40212909[source]▶
I'm not sure it can replace non-trivial setups - sudo/doas looks set to stay.

e.g when you need to restrict a set of users to run only certain applications with certain other users. sudo can do this (even if the config format can be painful).

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1. agwa ◴[30 Apr 24 20:14 UTC] No.40215759[source]▶
Good news! run0 will use polkit[1], which uses JavaScript for its rules[2], so there's no limit to how complex your rules can get!

On the other hand, maybe adding a JavaScript interpreter to Linux's trusted computing base isn't good news...

[1] https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353420303876549

[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polk...

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2. akira2501 ◴[30 Apr 24 20:37 UTC] No.40216026[source]▶
If the lesson of xz was "reduce supply chain attack surface" then the freedesktop people clearly haven't received it yet.
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3. rcxdude ◴[30 Apr 24 22:05 UTC] No.40216997[source]▶
It's a heck if a lot better than a random smattering of shared libraries getting pulled into a random high-priviledge context which also inherits some other context from whoever is asking for authentication. Polkit gets a lot of flack but PAM is absolutely mad.
4. bmicraft ◴[01 May 24 01:24 UTC] No.40218506[source]▶
Fedora has used PolKit for 12 years now, and the javascript rules have probably been a thing for about as long.
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5. akira2501 ◴[01 May 24 10:08 UTC] No.40221373{3}[source]▶
Doctors recommended cigarettes for decades. What should give everyone similar pause is xz was found unintentionally.