• "run0" as a sudo replacement

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Tue Apr 30 14:15:06 2024
    "run0" as a sudo replacement

    Date:
    Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:01:29 +0000

    Description:
    This
    Mastodon stream from Lennart Poettering describes a sudo replacement called run0 that will be part of the upcoming
    systemd 256 release. It takes a rather different approach to the execution
    of privileged commands, avoiding the use of setuid (which he calls "SUID") permissions entirely. 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.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/971745/


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