• Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
    4425·
    2 months ago

    Systemd makes life easy. It also makes Linux more teachable. I like accessibility and don’t even mind this

    • topperharlie@lemmy.world
      246·
      2 months ago

      hard disagree. life with plain text logs and daemon init scripts was so easy and nice. But we can’t have nice things…

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
        182·
        2 months ago

        You know what’s nice? Being able to sit down at any Linux distro and being able to set up and configure services without Googling how to use that particular distro’s init system.

    • herrvogel@lemmy.world
      205·
      2 months ago

      But it’s so unbearably slow.

      Me when my computer that has a typical uptime of 37 days boots up in 7 seconds with systemd instead of 5.5 seconds with runit: 😡😡😡😡

    • lengau@midwest.social
      31·
      2 months ago

      I’m not on the systemd hate train by any means, but I don’t understand how this is any improvement over pkexec

      • NekkoDroid@programming.dev
        2·
        2 months ago

        I don’t understand how this is any improvement over pkexec

        That has the same problem as sudo: the SUID bit is set for it.

        The fact that run0 uses polkit is more of a byproduct that this kinda authentication is already done with polkit all over the place in systemd. You can have individual subcommand accessible to different users (for example everyone can systemctl status, but systemctl reboot needs to be in the wheel group) which is why its generally used within systemd already. And it wouldn’t surprise me if again you can do it with this as well, limiting what commands can unconditionally run, need prompt or are completely blocked.

      • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’m unclear from the documentation, does pkexec work under non-GUI contexts?

        • lengau@midwest.social
          4·
          2 months ago

          As long as you have polkit setup to work in terminal sessions, yes. This is pretty standard these days, though not particularly widely used.