<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I never said it was a drop-in replacement.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> But if the goal is to use this instead of "sudo", some migration documentation would help quite a bit.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I know the implementation will not work with current "sudoers" configurations, nor will it ever per comments from Leonard Poettering.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> But the current documentation I find lacking in how to perform the same functions I'm already doing with "sudo".</div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Nils Kattenbeck <nilskemail@gmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 26, 2025 11:50 AM<br> <b>To:</b> SCOTT FIELDS <Scott.Fields@kyndryl.com><br> <b>Cc:</b> Systemd <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org><br> <b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [systemd-devel] Documentation on 'run0' command in Systemd >256</font> <div> </div> </div> <div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div class="PlainText">run0 is not a drop-in replacement for sudo in every case. It works<br> inherently different but therein lies its strength (but also its<br> weaknesses). For allowing only specific commands you will need to look<br> into setting up polkit rules because that is what run0 uses in the<br> back to check if running the command should be allowed.<br> <br> Cheers, Nils<br> <br> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM SCOTT FIELDS <Scott.Fields@kyndryl.com> wrote:<br> ><br> > 'run0' is defined as a better 'sudo', though the documentation I see is a bit sparse.<br> ><br> > Is documentation regarding how to get similiar function from 'run0' as you can in a sudo configuration file present anywhere?<br> ><br> > Primary issue is restricting access to specific users and commands.<br> ><br> > The latter is the what I see not really documented.<br> ><br> > And more specifically, how to specify "wildcard" formatted commands, if currently possible at all, directly.<br> ><br> > Essentially, more a porting guide for moving an existing 'sudo' configuration to the new 'run0' infrastructure.<br> ><br> > Scott Fields<br> > Kyndryl<br> </div> </span></font></div> </body> </html>