Feature request: Support for logging in as a specific user (not just as "admin")
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Issue-Feature
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- Rust
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Description
Yep, pretty much what it says on the tin. Currently, sudo just runs the target app as the admin half of the admin user's split token (which may or may not be the current user). We should support a -u flag to allow the user to specify a different user to run as.
### Tasks
- [ ] #19
- [ ] Support running as System
- [ ] Support running as TrustedInstaller
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the current sudo path that runs the target app as the admin half of the split token. Review task #19 and the remaining task-list entries to define the user-selection cases, then verify that -u supports a specified user, System, and TrustedInstaller.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100