Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacem...
  • vsis@feddit.clEnglish
    471·
    6 months ago

    Oh, it’s gonna use polkit. Sudo bloat is a grain of sand compared to polkit.

    Why people want to replace sudo with polkit? Visudo is no near as obscure as configuring polkit.

    I hope distro maintainers don’t follow this.

    • lengau@midwest.social
      14·
      6 months ago

      …is pkexec not good enough already as a polkit based sudo replacement? Why would one need to systemd-ify that?

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      6 months ago

      I just treat polkit as “set it and forget” kind of thing and leave it on defaults, I’d rather spend my time on something more important

    • john89@lemmy.ca
      22·
      6 months ago

      First thing I do with any new desktop installation is disable polkit prompts.

      Fuck having to enter my password every time I want to do something.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        11·
        6 months ago

        Hey uh can I get your IP address real quick? I have a strong suspicion your philosophy extends to your network ports.

        • john89@lemmy.ca
          11·
          6 months ago

          You’d be wrong about that.

          Edit: he just downvotes me instead of admitting he’s wrong about his assumption, lol.