Post #1539663
2025-11-22 08:00 UTC
@nik @daandemeyer @pid_eins this is an interesting discussion here, and I share niks concerns.
Particularly on the Ubuntu side this change happens in the LTS cycle which is ill aligned, so I've asked for the feature to be disabled for now at least.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/2132177
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@nik@toot.teckids.org 2025-11-22 09:47
@juliank @daandemeyer @pid_eins Ubuntu updates systemd to an entire new release within LTS 🤔?
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@daandemeyer@mastodon.social 2025-11-22 18:45
@juliank @nik @pid_eins This isn't a new privilege escalation mechanism. All this option does is make some already existing features more easily accessible. I encourage you to take a look https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39495 to see how trivial the PR introducing --empower was.