Crate sudo2

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 sudo Escalate builder

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.

escalate_with_env

Restart your program with sudo and if the user is not privileged enough. Inherit all environment variables.

pkexec

Similar to escalate_if_needed, but with pkexec as the wrapper

running_as_root

Returns true if binary is already running as root.

running_as_suid

Returns true if binary is already running as suid.

with_env

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

with_env_wildcards

Escalate privileges while maintaining RUST_BACKTRACE and selected environment variables that matches given wildcard (or none).