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Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition

15 points by campuscodi

by 0_____0

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Oh good! I thought they'd gotten rid of the sudo Lecture that comes up when you first use it. With great power... And so forth.

by sherr

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There are alternatives to sudo other than the new Rust version here.
"doas" [1] comes from OpenBSD and is a smaller (LOC) tool, easier to audit and keep secure (supposedly). Also available for Linux.
Also "run0" [2], another alternative that comes from the Linux/Systemd camp, using "polkit" and is similar to "systemd-run".
[1] https://man.openbsd.org/doas.1
[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/257/run0.ht...

by alexjurkiewicz

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I wish sudo-rs and all projects being used in production would suck it up and release a major version v1. Seeing v0.xxx on a program used by Ubuntu as a base system utility is ridiculous. You don't have to try and contort the version numbers of a user-facing utility to fit into the semver API spec, but at least bump to v1.0.0 and continue from there!

by pss314

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sudo-rs is one of the initiatives of Prossimo https://www.memorysafety.org/

by worthless-trash

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Ubuntu hasn't had 40 years of it to make 40 years of tradition.

by add-sub-mul-div

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Decades of real world use and hardening are more valuable than anything a rewrite can promise or provide. But the not-invented-recently culture comes for everything.