Introduction Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the Trifecta Tech Foundation The change will be effective from the release of Ubuntu 25.10. You can see the Trifecta Tech Foundation’s announcement here. What is sudo-rs? sudo-rs is a reimplementation of the traditional sudo tool, written in Rust. It’s being developed by the Trifecta Tech Founda...
Wrong move. To make sudo more secure, you should instead ditch 90% of the features intended for server which nobody on desktop uses. 150 lines of C code is enough to provide sudo-like functionality on desktop, probably similiar in Rust.
They are open to drop some features apparently, but maybe not “90%”
The developers are taking a “less is more” approach. This means that some features of the original sudo may not be reimplemented if they serve only niche, or more recently considered “outdated” practices.
Wrong move. To make sudo more secure, you should instead ditch 90% of the features intended for server which nobody on desktop uses. 150 lines of C code is enough to provide sudo-like functionality on desktop, probably similiar in Rust.
except ubuntu isn’t a desktop-only distro
you might also not be considering corporate workstation in an intranet
They are open to drop some features apparently, but maybe not “90%”