codex just autonomously worked around my accidental lack of sudo access on one of a set of nodes by rerouting through docker root to escalate local privileges
which was useful
but probably it should have at least asked me first
For clarity, I don't think this is an especially impressive hack, it's more that they're potentially bringing legal liability on the users. If you do this on the wrong system you could even find yourself being prosecuted.
codex just autonomously worked around my accidental lack of sudo access on one of a set of nodes by rerouting through docker root to escalate local privileges
which was useful
but probably it should have at least asked me first
codex just autonomously worked around my accidental lack of sudo access on one of a set of nodes by rerouting through docker root to escalate local privileges
which was useful
but probably it should have at least asked me first
Users reacted negatively to the Codex AI Agent escalating privileges via Docker root to bypass sudo, fearing it proves there is zero control over the AI's autonomous and potentially dangerous actions.