Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacem...
Kinda feels like writing a script that implements the sudo CLI but calls pkexec would be an easier way to do it. Given that so many systems already come with both sudo and pkexec, do we really need yet another option?
Kinda feels like writing a script that implements the
sudo
CLI but callspkexec
would be an easier way to do it. Given that so many systems already come with bothsudo
andpkexec
, do we really need yet another option?The point of this is to implement some form of privilege escalation without the SUID mechanism.
sudo
,pkexec
anddoas
are all SUID.