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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0 (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Will this be an integral part of systemd, or will they release it as a separate thing? I mean, if I like it, but I'm not using systemd (I do use it, but I'm just thinking about it), could I use this run0 (horrible name) without having to buy into all of systemd?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

it's just a link to systemd-run which is a part of systemd, i doubt it works separately.

but, if you use s6 as an alternative init system, s6-sudo is a somewhat equivalent aproach to how run0 works (instead of systemd-run it calls s6-ipcclient)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

The article says it works by messaging systemd to run the process as the given user, rather than being a SUID binary. So it wouldn't work without systemd.