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minus-squareintrepid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoUnfortunately, this is about as easy as it gets. Practically though, it isn’t going to matter. It sounds like run0 will be a drop-in replacement for sudo. We will know for sure in about 3 days (at the rate at which they assimilate features).
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoSo there would be no practical benefits of switching?
minus-squareTobias Hunger@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 months agoIt gets rid of one more SUID binary. That’s always a win for security. Sudo probably is way more comfortable to use and has way more configurable, too – that usually does not help to make a tool secure either:-)
Unfortunately, this is about as easy as it gets. Practically though, it isn’t going to matter. It sounds like
run0will be a drop-in replacement forsudo. We will know for sure in about 3 days (at the rate at which they assimilate features).So there would be no practical benefits of switching?
It gets rid of one more SUID binary. That’s always a win for security.
Sudo probably is way more comfortable to use and has way more configurable, too – that usually does not help to make a tool secure either:-)