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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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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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[–] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The article points out that sudo has already been forked by Ubuntu maintainer canonical into sudo-rs which reimplements sudo in rust with better memory protections. It also states that the maintainer of sudo expects sudo-rs to be the future of sudo.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    That's good, at least everything won't collapse catastrophically at this like a single point of failure without any redundancies. It would be better if someone other than canonical would do it, but at least it's not like no one is...

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