Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo
Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo
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Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo
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Rare Canonical W. The only thing I miss from the original sudo is
sudoedit, but I'm pretty sure that's on the Rust implementation's TODO list.-
They've got a few months to get it done, and it shouldn't be that hard, no? Just exec EDITOR as a child process, no?
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I looked at it, its on the todo list. I also use
sudoedit(orsudo -e). I can't find the todo list, but here is the issue for: https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/issues/762 -
Yep. They make some strange decisions sometimes but this isn't one of them.
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Time for people to be mad that sudo-rs isn't GPL even though the original sudo wasn't GPL either.
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It isn't? What is it's license then
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Wikipedia says ISC
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What issue do people have with the sudo-rs license? Its Free and Open Source. I think its more like people having an issue with the language Rust and just search excuses to be mad at.
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The concern is that if lots of softwares get rewritten and some of those softwares switch from a copyleft license to a permissive license, then things might stop being open-source sooner or later, because companies are not anymore forced to open-source.
Yes, in the case of sudo-rs, this concern is silly. But for example, the uutils coreutils are under MIT license, when the GNU coreutils were under GPL-3.0.
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I’ve switched my Nix setup to this sudo implementation a while ago, and have noticed no downsides thus far. I’ll take the memory safety, with a fresh codebase
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Surely this won't upset people.
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Foreshadowing some tension...
Relevant XKCD
https://xkcd.com/1172/
Thats a good one