Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacem...
I haven’t checked the details yet, but surely this will need configuration to decide what users are allowed to use run0. The binary might exist, ready to be configured (the same is true for many systemd deployments that use alternative network managers!) but without configuration to match, I don’t think run0 will be usable for users that don’t already have root access.
it does its authorization with polkit (which IIRC defaults to allow all wheel group members) and giving users that shouldn’t be allowed root access, root access, is not something you ever want. This is usually referred to as unauthorized privilege escalation. Also, it isn’t like sudo doesn’t need configuration.
I haven’t checked the details yet, but surely this will need configuration to decide what users are allowed to use run0. The binary might exist, ready to be configured (the same is true for many systemd deployments that use alternative network managers!) but without configuration to match, I don’t think run0 will be usable for users that don’t already have root access.
it does its authorization with polkit (which IIRC defaults to allow all
wheel
group members) and giving users that shouldn’t be allowed root access, root access, is not something you ever want. This is usually referred to as unauthorized privilege escalation. Also, it isn’t likesudo
doesn’t need configuration.