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Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29210689
Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10
Why not make Ubuntu a GNU/ Redox distribution at that point?
A way smaller alternative therefore less prompt to vulnerabilities is OpenDoas found on Arch/Artix/... and other distros. From the GH project:
doas is a minimal replacement for the venerable sudo. It was initially written by Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD project to provide 95% of the features of sudo with a fraction of the codebase.
Tried it but it is not a 100% compatible as sudo replacment as it lacks some of the args. This means that some programs fail as they attempt to use incorrect args.
I'm curious about which programs if you can share. I write few bash scripts which used to call sudo, and I replace sudo with doas in those. And in case of muscular memory I also added a bash alias so that if by mistake calling sudo in reality I'd be calling doas. So far no issues. O course I don't use fancy args, and what I really needed from sudo I used to include it in /etc/sudoers and now on /etc/doas.conf, and I believe I couldn't include a couple of options but they were not critical since I've lived without them so far. And it's weird to find actual software that requires sudo, perhaps proprietary software. One can actually live without sudo and without doas, as long as there's still su.
Not judging, rather curious, actually I've met several guys who write scripts which would benefit from using sudo/doas, but they claim better call the scripts through sudo/doas rather than adding them as dependencies.
Now we just need to rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust
Does it have to be Linux? Some greybeards are pretty opposed to it. I wonder if it would be easier to make our own theme park kernel with blackjack and hookers memory and thread safety, like Redox.
Does it have to be Linux?
In order to be a viable general use OS, probably yes. It would be an enormous amount of effort to reach a decent range of hardware compatibility without reusing the work that has already been done. Maybe someone will try something more ambitious, like writing a rust kernel with C interoperability and a linux-like API so we can at least port linux drivers to it as a "temporary" solution.
This will delay Hurd by another 40 years
we’re also sponsoring the uutils project to ensure that some key gaps are closed before we ship 25.10. The sponsorship will primarily cover the development of SELinux support for common commands such as mv, ls, cp, etc.
I didn't think Ubuntu used SELinux.
Not by default, but you can optionally enable it.
what's the license on sudo-rs, is it MIT like uutils?
Seems like it's Apache-2.0, but original sudo is under ISC license, which is more permissive as far as I'm aware. Although Apache-2.0 is very much still considered "permissive", too.
goddamit 😔
Wrong move. To make sudo more secure, you should instead ditch 90% of the features intended for server which nobody on desktop uses. 150 lines of C code is enough to provide sudo-like functionality on desktop, probably similiar in Rust.
except ubuntu isn't a desktop-only distro
you might also not be considering corporate workstation in an intranet
They are open to drop some features apparently, but maybe not "90%"
The developers are taking a “less is more” approach. This means that some features of the original sudo may not be reimplemented if they serve only niche, or more recently considered “outdated” practices.
Take all the power away from the end user and give it all to Poettering, NO FUCKING THANKS.
sudo-rs doesn't have anything to do with run0. Please take your pills grandpa, we're worried about you.
Edit: in case you're actually an older person, the latter part wasn't meant as a swipe (just saw your pfp). In that case, sorry!
@FooBarrington What you are advocating is taking power away from the user. Go install WIndows 11 if this is what you want punk.
chill