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Now Is the Perfect Time to Change Sudo
1 points by sinsudo 44 days ago
The sore pain is here, LLM agents, NPM ecosystem. The timing looks perfect. There are mature solutions like Chromebooks. Some ideas: two computers in one; or two sudo levels, the higher just for system recovery and diagnosis.

The problem is not so much technical as of providing an easy path to adoption.

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Just use qube OS and give your agent a qube to play with. All your data stays safely in your other qubes the agent has access to passwordless sudo. Everybody wins.
Perhaps is a good solution. But the focus is in a solution very easy to adopt and your proposal requires the qube OS. What would a drop‑in, frictionless, secure‑enough replacement for sudo look like on mainstream Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora), something as easy to install as a package and as invisible as the current sudo, but with two layers of privilege (routine vs. recovery)?
A dedicated user for the agent.