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[–] elvith@feddit.org 56 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

Another thing Claude tried to do on my coworker's machine yesterday was basically:

✨ Yes, that is easy, let me just generate a systems unit file for you...

[Generates file]

Should I install that unit now for you?

Yes

Alright, let me do that for you

[Saves file]

[Tries to run systemctl daemon reload]

[Tries to activate the unit]

It looks like I have insufficient rights to proceed, let me try another way...

docker -rm -v /etc/systemd/system:/mount:Z -v ./unitfile.service:unit file.service:Z alpine /bin/sh cp ./unitfile.service /mount/

Here, I installed the unit for you!

[–] dan@upvote.au 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Giving Docker access to Claude is certainly a choice.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

... especially if your user is in the docker group and doesn't need sudo, LOL

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 4 days ago

This isn't too bad if you're running Docker in rootless mode.

Adding a user to the docker group while running Docker as root doesn't really make sense though, since it makes it trivial to run things as root.

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