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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

hang on, there's one called please? Are there any downsides with using please instead of sudo?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    From what I can see, it's a sudo clone with added optional regex functionality, written in Rust.
    So you can use it just like sudo, or you can limit superuser rights to directory names that contain a 💩 emoji, but only on Mondays.

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