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Sumission for the Rustdesk Octernship

Rustdesk Octernship Submission

This is my submission for the Rustdesk Octernship application.

The task was to "Elevate priviledge to run ls -la /root/ with Rust, and print the result on the Flutter window".

The example image

My implementation details

I made a simple Flutter app that checks for the existence of polkit, sudo, and su in order to carry out the privilege escalation. It then only offers to use those that are available (though, sudo and su are very ubiquitous so it is unlikely for a Linux system to not have both).

The application also allows for the command to be ran without any form of escalation, in case it was launched from a privileged context (and therefore wouldn't need escalation).

Media

The main page of the application

The authentication dialog

The output after authenticating

How to build

• Clone the repository and change directories

• Ensure you have the dependencies:

  • Flutter (with Linux desktop support)
  • a Rust toolchain
  • the just command runner
  • flutter_rust_bridge_codegen

• Run just to ensure the generated bindings are up to date

• Run flutter run to run the application