Systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative

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  • caja

    Caja, the file manager for the MATE desktop (by mate-desktop)

  • I don't know if you are DE shopping, but I've been very happy for the past few years with the MATE Desktop Environment, which "...is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems."

    https://mate-desktop.org/

    Among a great number of things I really like, I will mention that Caja, the MATE version of GNOME 2's Nautilus file manager, still can still be switched to spatial mode.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager

    Generally speaking, I too really liked GNOME 2.32 and its predecessors, and, as far as I'm concerned, MATE is as it describes itself.

  • systemd

    The systemd System and Service Manager

  • > I for one love to type out 13 extra characters

    FWIW, systemd is normally pretty good at providing autocomplete suggestions, so even if you don't want to set up an alias you'll probably just have to type `--b ` to set it.

    > I wonder what random ASCII escape sequences we can send.

    According to the man page source[0]:

    > The color specified should be an ANSI X3.64 SGR background color, i.e. strings such as `40`, `41`, …, `47`, `48;2;…`, `48;5;…`

    and a link to the relevant Wikipedia page[1]. Given systemd's generally decent track record wrt defects and security issues, and the simplicity of valid colour values, I expect there's a fairly robust parameter verifier in there.

    In fact, given the focus on starting the elevated command in a highly controlled environment, I'd expect the colour codes to be output to the originating terminal, not forwarded to the secure pty. That way, the only thing malformed escapes can affect is your own process, which you already have full control over anyway.

    (Happy to be shown if that's a mistaken expectation though.)

    [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/man/run0.xml

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#SGR_(Select_G...

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