Sudo and doas are 1000x (in loc) more complex than they need to be for destop pc. Yet they are always default installed and some tools even expect them.
edit: didn’t know that doas is that small. I thought it has ~1/10 of sudo’s code but it’s actually ~2k vs. 132k of sudo.
Actually, i thought about merging rdo and ssu, both a bit over 100 loc in C. Yes, it would be feasible over a weekend. I just have a lot of other stuff i need to do first.
Thought about “merging” because ssu works without asking for password, but it has weak argument parsing (need ‘ssu – stuff’) and works only on cli stuff. “Merging” meaning taking some inspirations from rdo to fix ssu. But ssu is great if used in yay (aur helper) or for nano, mv & co.
doas is relativly simple (a few hundred LOC), especially compared to sudo. The main benefit of run0 over doas is that it isn’t a SUID binary, they are similary complex.
I use rdo and ssu, each with a bit over 100 loc C code. Though they both have their own strong and weak points, i’m sure there are other similiar tools around.
Sudo and doas are 1000x (in loc) more complex than they need to be for destop pc. Yet they are always default installed and some tools even expect them.
edit: didn’t know that doas is that small. I thought it has ~1/10 of sudo’s code but it’s actually ~2k vs. 132k of sudo.
I await your much improved solution then. It sounds so simple, I bet you knock it out over the weekend, right?
Actually, i thought about merging rdo and ssu, both a bit over 100 loc in C. Yes, it would be feasible over a weekend. I just have a lot of other stuff i need to do first.
Found ssu here : https://github.com/illiliti/ssu Can’t find rdo. What is it ?
https://codeberg.org/sw1tchbl4d3/rdo
Thought about “merging” because ssu works without asking for password, but it has weak argument parsing (need ‘ssu – stuff’) and works only on cli stuff. “Merging” meaning taking some inspirations from rdo to fix ssu. But ssu is great if used in yay (aur helper) or for nano, mv & co.
Thanks
Now that you’ve mentioned how complex they are, can you share a few alternatives, apart from run0?
doasis relativly simple (a few hundred LOC), especially compared tosudo. The main benefit ofrun0overdoasis that it isn’t a SUID binary, they are similary complex.Actually it’s close to 2k lines of code (1,946 to be exact). But yes, it’s certainly a lot simpler than sudo (132k).
I use rdo and ssu, each with a bit over 100 loc C code. Though they both have their own strong and weak points, i’m sure there are other similiar tools around.