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by hxelk1 783 days ago
I've spent a lot of time studying systemd alternatives. I believe the overall best design is Skarnet's s6, and that too includes a sudo-like program:

https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-sudo.html

I was very surprised when I learned about it, but it does make sense (for s6 at least).

> There is absolutely no reason to tie your new sudo replacement to systemd. Absolutely none.

With s6, the idea is to replace a SUID binary with an IPC mechanism. That does make sense, since (parts of) the init system need to be running as root.

> I am very glad to have jumped ship from systemd.

All that aside, so am I.
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deng 783 days ago
> With s6, the idea is to replace a SUID binary with an IPC mechanism. That does make sense, since (parts of) the init system need to be running as root.

Same idea with systemd-run.

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