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Run codeedit as root

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
cli, operating-systems, security

Research direction

The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how the CLI invokes CodeEdit.app and how privileged file access is handled; done should mean that sudo codeedit can edit root or system files with an agreed-upon approach.

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Description

Being able to run sudo codeedit and being able to edit root/system files

or maybe able to unlock it like this

Dominant language
Swift
Stars
81
Forks
19
No merged PRs in 30d

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