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sudo-proxy MCP Server

Privileged command execution proxy with human approval via pkexec or sudo

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Published as sudo-proxy on cargo. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

12 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 9.

Most discussed

Non-privileged requests skip approval by default; reconsider --confirm-unprivileged default

Where

src/server.rs:542-555; documented at README "Non-privileged mode".

Issue

Without --confirm-unprivileged, any request with privileged: false runs immediately with no TUI gate. The README documents this, but in the MCP threat model it means a prompt-injected or malicious model can:

— all without any human-visible approval. The user's…

Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · closed · 1 comment

TUI 'Resolves:' line shows the PATH-found path, not the symlink target

Where

src/executor.rs:75-93 (which), used by src/tui.rs:104-127.

Issue

The README's Security considerations claim:

The resolved absolute path of argv[0] is displayed alongside the requested name so symlink tricks are visible.

But which() performs a PATH search and stops at the first hit without following symlinks. If /usr/local/bin/foo is a symlink to /tmp/evil, the TUI displays:

Command: foo …
Resolves: /usr/local/bin/foo

— hiding the actual target. A…

Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · closed · 1 comment

Surface AI-actor disclosure in the TUI prompt and audit trail

Problem

The TUI prompt (src/tui.rs:87-113) shows From: <session> @ <host> and treats every requester identically. When the request originates from sudo-proxy-mcp — i.e. an AI agent is the one asking — that fact is only legible if the human notices the literal string sudo-proxy-mcp in the From: line and remembers what it means.

Industry practice around generative-AI transparency is moving toward an explicit signal at decision points: when a human is asked to approve an action that…

Read the thread · 2026-06-04 · open · 0 comments

Remote command env is nearly empty: HOME / USER / PATH unset, breaks tools that resolve paths via $HOME

When sudo-proxy executes a command on a remote host, the spawned shell inherits almost no environment. Specifically HOME, USER, LOGNAME, and PATH are all unset. Authentication and UID mapping work fine — the process runs as the right user — but tools that resolve paths via $HOME either fail outright or silently use the wrong location.

Repro

Using the MCP execute interface (or any equivalent path that ends in ssh user@host "cmd" without an interactive PTY):


[Read the thread](https://github.com/tarides/sudo-proxy/issues/23) · 2026-06-02 · closed · 0 comments

### exec: setsid() drops controlling tty, breaks sudo password prompts

## Symptom

When sudo-proxy is run on a remote (`ssh -t HOST sudo-proxy`) and the operator's sudoers rules require a password, the daemon's child fails:

sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper sudo: a password is required


— even though the operator has an interactive SSH session right there. We hit this deploying v0.9.0 to argos.ci.dev. On `root@23.88.5.178` it didn't trigger because root…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tarides/sudo-proxy/issues/19) · 2026-05-05 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### Per-session policy isolation (allowlists, rate limits, audit grouping)

## Problem

The `session` field on `Request` (`src/protocol.rs:12-13`) exists but is purely informational — it's printed in the TUI and (with `-v`) in the daemon log, and that's it. Two different Claude Code projects sharing one workstation hit the *same* socket, the *same* TUI gate, and would share the *same* policy and audit grouping if those existed.

This is fine today because the only gate is the TUI keypress. It stops being fine the moment we add policy: an allowlist that's appropriate…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tarides/sudo-proxy/issues/8) · 2026-05-05 · open · 0 comments

### Annotate TUI prompt with factual risk signals (not a conflated score)

## Problem

The TUI prompt (`src/tui.rs:76-117`) shows the command, resolved path, reason, session, host, and time — but every command looks visually identical. A pipeline that touches `/etc` or makes a network connection should stand out at a glance from a `cat /var/log/syslog`. Today nothing in the prompt distinguishes "obviously fine" from "worth pausing on."

The naive fix is a single \"risk: low/medium/high\" badge. That's worse than nothing: heuristics that summarise to a single colour…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tarides/sudo-proxy/issues/7) · 2026-05-05 · open · 0 comments

### Append-only audit log of approved requests and outcomes

## Problem

The only record of what sudo-proxy approved and ran is `-v` output on stderr (`src/server.rs:518-522`). It vanishes when the terminal closes. For a tool whose value proposition is "human in the loop," there is no durable record of *which* command was approved by *which* operator at *what* time, nor what the result was.

This matters most when something goes wrong: a misapproved `rm`, a config change that broke a service overnight, an unexpected exit code. The TUI prompt has been…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tarides/sudo-proxy/issues/6) · 2026-05-05 · open · 0 comments

### Display file contents in TUI for root-owned file writes

## Problem

When sudo-proxy writes a file to a root-owned directory (e.g. `/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/`), the human approving the command in the TUI only sees the command line (`install -m 644 /tmp/99-hardening.conf /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/99-hardening.conf`). They have no way to review the actual file contents before approving.

This came up when deploying an sshd hardening config — the file was staged in `/tmp`, copied via `scp`, then installed with `install`. The TUI approval step showed the…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tarides/sudo-proxy/issues/1) · 2026-02-13 · open · 0 comments

[See all 12 reports Pod holds for sudo-proxy](/mcp/sudo-proxy/issues).

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