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systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 6 months ago by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] korbel@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

Does it give alternative to sudo -e (sudoedit) too?

[-] brunacho@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 6 months ago

i had the same question so I went through the source code and, for now, doesn't seem like it has implemented such option.

[-] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As the other comment said, no. But I've had the idea and will to at some point write a edit script (that I can just set EDITOR= to) that would just choose one of the first common editors. That could in theory have a -0 option to run as root (there also probably looking through run0, doas, sudo and su). Not the editor, but doing the editing on a temp file and then copying with root

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

Out of the box no. But it would be easy to implement if you don't need very complex rules. (I don't actually know how permissions work for sudoedit.)

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

sudoedit copies a file to a temp directory, invokes $EDITOR with that temp file, and after the editor process exits, it copies the file back to overwrite the original. This way you get your user preferred and configured editor, but it doesn’t have any elevated privileges.