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Will Linux’s New run0 Command Run sudo Out of Town? (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 3 months ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] exu@feditown.com 39 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I might try run0 for fun, but I don't think it'll replace sudo any time soon.
The biggest issue I see is run0 purposely not copying any environment variables except for TERM.
You'd have to specify which editor to use, the current directory, stuff like PATH and HOME every time you run a command.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Su - then

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not a fan of the idea at all, but come on, it can't really be that bad. There's got to be somewhere you can tell it what environment variables to use. Probably something like run0 systemd-edit /usr/system/systemd/systemrun/run0-environment --system-default=system

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

it can't really be that bad.

LoL; you say that... But

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

run0 uses systemd-run i don't remember you can use that directly

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't it be better to just use containers then? Nix and Guix has the exact thing - you get to control what variables you want to pass in.

[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 3 months ago

You can't really install packages or modify configs on the host without root. Containers can only do some parts.

[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Alias it to pull those in automatically?

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe, but now I still need to remember the alias or distribute it to any machine I'm working on.
Not that difficult if you have everything managed with Ansible or similar anyways, but lots of people likely don't have that setup.