🥺: the best sudo replacement - Xe's Blog

Also for some reason this article created a 500+ comment thread on the Orange Website where boomers complain about the authors pronouns.

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    That's because the binary needs the right permissions. If it was root + setuid it should work on Unix.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      So building it with the right permissions would actually allow it to run as a sudo alternative?

      • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah it would be essentially the same as sudo with the NOPASSWD: ALL option set in /etc/sudoers

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I prefer my reading of the bit because a "bottom sudo" that only ever gets denied by the kernel is funnier