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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: 0.203s | source
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fn-mote ◴[30 Apr 24 16:01 UTC] No.40212557[source]▶
Overall, this seems great.

However...

> [...] by default it will tint your terminal background in a reddish tone while you are operating with elevated privileges

?!! ouch ... seems orthogonal to the actual important parts.

Disclaimer: I didn't try it.

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NekkoDroid ◴[30 Apr 24 16:15 UTC] No.40212686[source]▶
I tried it a bit ago (when it was still called uid0, pre-release), I also wasn't a fan of the tinting.

I like the intent behind it, but some terminals already tint the header color when running sudo, I haven't tested if its done specifically for sudo or if its in a more generic way that could handle this as well.

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withinboredom ◴[30 Apr 24 16:39 UTC] No.40213006[source]▶
I can think of a number of things this tinting would break.
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lupire ◴[30 Apr 24 17:45 UTC] No.40213766[source]▶
Can you name any?
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1. shiomiru ◴[30 Apr 24 22:34 UTC] No.40217253[source]▶
If the program you're running prints red text, then you get red bgcolor with red fgcolor. Good luck reading that.

(Also, users with the wrong color scheme get that experience by default. Though that is a niche use case enough that I'd be surprised if systemd devs cared about it.)