[intelfx]

I mean, systemd-run could do privilege escalation from day one. It's even the default (otherwise overridable by systemd-run -pUser=<user>). I have used systemd-run --shell on countless occasions when I needed a clean root shell without any traces of the current environment.

What is being announced is merely a thin layer of cmdline syntactic sugar over an existing feature, to make it closer to sudo in usage.

So I'm not sure what exactly you were missing?

[otabdeveloper4]

Currently you have to do `sudo systemd-run --shell` if you want a root shell from a regular user's account.