Crate karen

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Detect if you are running as root, restart self with sudo if needed or setup uid zero when running with the SUID flag set.

§Requirements

  • The sudo program is required to be installed and setup correctly on the target system.
  • Linux or Mac OS X tested
    • It should work on *BSD. However, you can also create an Escalate builder with doas as the wrapper should you prefer that.

Structs§

Enums§

  • Cross platform representation of the state the current program running

Functions§

  • Alias for Escalate::builder() to quickly create a new karen Escalate builder
  • Check getuid() and geteuid() to learn about the configuration this program is running under
  • Similar to escalate_if_needed, but with doas as the wrapper
  • Restart your program with sudo if the user is not privileged enough.
  • Similar to escalate_if_needed, but with pkexec as the wrapper
  • Escalate privileges while maintaining RUST_BACKTRACE and selected environment variables (or none).