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Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

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466 points CoolCold | 1 comments | 29 Apr 24 23:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kevincox ◴[30 Apr 24 15:57 UTC] No.40212503[source]▶
> One could say, "run0" is closer to behaviour of "ssh" than to "sudo", in many ways.

This is an interesting offhand comment. You could implement a very similar tool by SSHing to localhost.

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Arnavion ◴[30 Apr 24 19:34 UTC] No.40215277[source]▶
Technically `sudo -u` can switch to any user on the system while only a limited few would be allowed as ssh targets. Even root might not be allowed as an ssh target if `PermitRootLogin` is set to `no`, which I do on all my systems.
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pmontra ◴[30 Apr 24 20:10 UTC] No.40215711[source]▶
I do use that a lot

  sudo -H -u user bash
after I ssh into a server with my own account. That other user might even be a no login account.
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1. noinsight ◴[30 Apr 24 21:58 UTC] No.40216926{3}[source]▶
You can just use `-i` instead of `bash`. (This method indeed requires a shell configured, your method is needed with nologin.)