Introduction Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the Trifecta Tech Foundation The change will be effective from the release of Ubuntu 25.10. You can see the Trifecta Tech Foundation’s announcement here. What is sudo-rs? sudo-rs is a reimplementation of the traditional sudo tool, written in Rust. It’s being developed by the Trifecta Tech Founda...
  • abobla@lemm.ee
    37·
    2 days ago

    This comment seems interesting, it was first question that popped into my head:

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      That is… A big claim. Yeah, rust minimizes or removes some categories of vulnerabilities. This is true. BUT sudo has been well tested over decades.

      • Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org
        4·
        21 hours ago

        I’ll be the first to admit to not paying much attention to Linux vulnerabilities, but I agree, I feel like a vulnerability in a package like sudo would have been huge news.