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    [–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (10 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I don't know enough about IT security to understand this.

    Does that mean that run0 puts programs in some form of sandbox? What's the difference now to sudo?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    Sudo is a setuid binary, which means it executes with root permissions as a child of of the calling process. This technically works, but gives the untrusted process a lot of ways to mess with sudo and potentially exploit it for unauthorized access.

    Run0 works by having a system service always running in the background as root. Running a command just sends a message to the already running seevice. This leaves a lot less room for exploits.

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