Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

Uses polkit.

run0, which behaves like sudo, but works entirely differently and is not SUID. Run0 asks the services manager to create a shell or command under the target user’s ID, creating a new PTY, sending data back and forth from the originating TTY and the new PTY.

I'm really starting to hate the sub-community in Linux that tries to constantly change it.

I don't want to learn a new network config alternative with every update (Ubuntu changed its net config tool again with 24.04). I don't want an immutable os. I don't want to learn to write new config files. I just want to do what I've been doing but with new packages. If there's a problem with something, just fix it. Don't throw out the whole thing.

I moved to FreeBSD and am happy for its reluctance to change. If there is any, it's usually offering something genuinely new to me as a feature and to boot I only need to learn about it if I need it.

Hardware support is much lower but it's worth it IMO. I had the same irritation with macOS. Every release breaking something essential that was part of my workflow and i didn't want to change. Eventually I did change but away from Apple.

I don't want to change to LennartOS either.

To help myself to understand others better, I made some efforts to look and keep looking outside my bubble.

That's not simple though- humans tend to think THEY know better for all others while it's often not.

Say you don't want to have immutable distros, but many want. Android or Talos or even OS for network switches are nice examples.

Linux based solutions and products related community is wide and to keep up with evolution one needs to adapt and adopt changes.

We already see what happens for immutable/stale systems like FreeBSD - even TrueNAS is abandoning it, dying as predicted by experts since 2008-2010.

On other side - nothing stops you from keep using sudo or even choose disto vendor which doesn't use systemd, there is a choice, not thing set in stone.

Say I don't plan to switch to run0 in any near future - first it's not gonna be in any LTS disto, 2nd - it seems to be lacking LDAP based rules and very much likely other important features.

I was really hoping the next sudo replacement would borrow heavily on root as role[0] (if not being root as role). Feels like a missed opportunity to not use capabilities.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016740482...

> The developer talks about the weaknesses of sudo, and how it has a large possible attack surface

Poettering's hypocrisy is painful.