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[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

If you need to provide tools that cross security boundaries then [...] a small web app is better [than sudo].

A web app? Effin really!!? 🤨

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 6 months ago

This is the part that confused me most. At the first mention of web apps, I just thought, okay, if you have a web server you can have it run under a service account that can do what it needs to do. Sure. Kind of beside the point, but sure.

Then this came at the end and and I did a double-take. He's really suggesting a web app as a substitute for sudo in general? Two questions:

  1. Wat?
  2. Wut?
this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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