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Ubuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

because new shiny things are more secure than proven things

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sudo had many vulnerabilities in past some of them unpached for years and it is bloated with unnecessary functionality that increases the attack surface. Doas is more secure and minimalist for example. Not an expert to say if Ubuntu approach is correct but I appreciate their effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

i don't think sudo is perfect either but doas already exists, surely they could use that??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Ubuntu is a corporate/popular distro. It wouldn't make much sense to move to do as when it lacks much of the functionality of sudo and isnt in a memory safe language, which is Ubuntu's goal with replacing user space software with Rust.