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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] 1 points 22 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 19 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.