Crate karen

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

Escalate

Enums

RunningAs

Cross platform representation of the state the current program running

Functions

builder

Alias for Escalate::builder() to quickly create a new karen Escalate builder

check

Check getuid() and geteuid() to learn about the configuration this program is running under

doas

Similar to escalate_if_needed, but with doas as the wrapper

escalate_if_needed

Restart your program with sudo if the user is not privileged enough.

pkexec

Similar to escalate_if_needed, but with pkexec as the wrapper

with_env

Escalate privileges while maintaining RUST_BACKTRACE and selected environment variables (or none).