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Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

@starman
Systemd is nice. I miss GUI apps for #SystemD.
Permanent mounting a Network drive or creating new Services and inspect and modify is such a point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe that could be a good thing, but only if the distros do not include sudo by default, the fact to have one thing to update to update more things is good in the security side! If it's well implemented I'm okay with it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Dudes trolling, right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

new sudo vulnerabilities? how exciting!

E: read the article, I guess that is part of the reason for the proposal. interesting

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even when that releases, it doesn't mean distros will switch to it. Just because it's systemd, doesn't always mean it's better. Just look at network manager vs systemd-networkd. Correct me if I'm wrong but afaik they are made to serve the same purpose and most distros prefer Network Manager over systemd-networkd.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago

I honestly started out not liking systemd at all, mostly due to the reports that it did waaay to much, but nowadays, I like the concept.

It is basically officially moving daemon management from a script-based approach to a table/database-based approach. That improves static analyzability, therefore increasing clarity, and probably even performance.

I agree that we should abandon scripts and move towards declarative software management, and abandoning sudo for a more declarative system seems like a good step to me.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The meme is becoming a reality. Systemd really is going to try to be everything lmao

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

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