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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Yeah... we didn't need run0.

Setuid and sudo work fine, and they're lightweight. I fail to see how yet another binary is needed for that job, and especially one that relies on polkit. If you really needed to use polkit for gaining privileges temporarily, pkexec already exists for that.