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Systemd Announces 'run0' Sudo Alternative
Wednesday May 1, 2024. 01:00 AM , from Slashdot/Apple
He's saying that sudo is a Unix concept from many decades ago, and a better privilege escalation system should be in place for 2024 security standards: 'So, in my ideal world, we'd have an OS entirely without SUID. Let's throw out the concept of SUID on the dump of UNIX' bad ideas. An execution context for privileged code that is half under the control of unprivileged code and that needs careful manual clean-up is just not how security engineering should be done in 2024 anymore.' He also mentioned that there will be more features in run0 that are not just related to the security backend such as: 'The tool is also a lot more fun to use than sudo. For example, by default, it will tint your terminal background in a reddish tone while you are operating with elevated privileges. That is supposed to act as a friendly reminder that you haven't given up the privileges yet, and marks the output of all commands that ran with privileges appropriately. It also inserts a red dot (unicode ftw) in the window title while you operate with privileges, and drops it afterwards.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/219252/systemd-announces-run0-sudo-alternative?utm_source=r...
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