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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really don't care about the command I use to get elevated privileges. On my Debian servers I use su and maybe in future, if Fedora decides to make the switch, I will use run0.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] TheGrandNagus 2 points 4 months ago

Read the article.

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

It does something different and doesn't ask to replace sudo everywhere. You brainless trashtalkers can't even read an article before you judge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm not systemd user, and I generally see this absorbing as much as possible as a terrible practice. I don't usually comment on systemd stuff, since I'm happy just not being forced to use it.

However, even though I don't use it, the decision of people managing systemd really affects non systemd users. See by succeeding in getting all major distros into become systemd distros (somehow now governed by RH, if anyone cares), everything systemd absorbs tend to leave alternatives sooner or later deprecated, or abandoned.

Even autofs is no longer part of some official repos, given systemd has its own auto mount/unmount functionality... And there are several other examples...

At any rate, hopefully the more bloated systemd, doesn't make it the more vulnerable. And also hopefully, doesn't make life worse and worse to non systemd distros and users...

BTW, before sudo there was su, so a life without sudo is possible, :)

[–] t0m5k1 3 points 4 months ago

Never had an issue.

Might look for a replacement should an issue arise.

Been driving Linux since sarge.

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