• 7heo@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    If you need to provide tools that cross security boundaries then […] a small web app is better [than sudo].

    A web app? Effin really!!? 🤨

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      This is the part that confused me most. At the first mention of web apps, I just thought, okay, if you have a web server you can have it run under a service account that can do what it needs to do. Sure. Kind of beside the point, but sure.

      Then this came at the end and and I did a double-take. He’s really suggesting a web app as a substitute for sudo in general? Two questions:

      1. Wat?
      2. Wut?