The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo

Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by jeroenhd on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:14PM (#50399803)

It works fine, has broad support for many packages from Canonical, has well over a decade of kernel and core program updates (up to 15 years for free up to five computers with a personal account!) and is often the target distribution for third-party packages. Most guides for professional software target either Red Hat or Ubuntu, and many driver packages for platforms like Arch are just the Ubuntu .debs that are extracted and shoved back into a different format.

Debian has its own flaws, like its controversial patches, lack of real LTS releases, and lack of business contracts guaranteeing support directly from the source if you're a business.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by Symbiote on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:36PM (#50399985)

In my day-to-day use of Ubuntu 26 "LTS", I've found bugs with chown, sudo, date, ls and sort.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by MaKey on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:56PM (#50400167)

Did you report them with ubuntu-bug?

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by dmitrygr on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:35PM (#50400424)

When did i sign up to work QA for Ubuntu? Did I miss my orientation and providing my direct deposit info?

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by Scoring6931 on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:52PM (#50400539)

You get a very good Linux distro without paying a single penny for it. Why not do a little work to help make it better?

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by dmitrygr on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:59PM (#50400570)

I do get a good one. From debian.org and I’ll report any bugs I find in it.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by yallpendantools on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:50PM (#50401156)

Honest question, is it worth it for an average user to file reports?

The first time I tried this was the last time I tried. It was ca. 2012 on an Acer laptop that I personally configured to dual-boot. My memory is not to be trusted but

- the biggest problem for me was that it asked for a core dump/logfile, which I agreed to, but for some reason or another it could not produce/extract said debug info and I got stuck in a loop of whoopsie trying and failing.

- smaller grievance (I might be wrong) is that I had to create some account (Launchpad?) in order to report the bug. Why can't it be anonymous?!

Everytime I turned this Acer laptop on, there will be 2-3 such prompts from Ubuntu that something report-worthy went wrong. You learn to blend it out like the cookie consent dialogs but still annoying. Plus, everything is still perfectly usable so it does seem like the OS is just making a mountain out of a molehill.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by aezart on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:40AM (#50411470)

In my experience every time I go to report a bug or submit a feature request on anything, I find that someone else has already done so it and a maintainer has responded with one of these:

- "why would anyone want that?"

- "that bug is not possible."

- "it's working as intended."

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by Symbiote on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:52AM (#50403112)

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by optionalsquid on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:51AM (#50404126)

GNU Coreutils also has hundreds of open bugs:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=coreutils

It's normal to find hundreds of open bugs in large open source projects

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by collinfunk on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:36PM (#50408696)

True. :)

I really should close some of them, e.g., 8559, since Gnulib, which we depend on, doesn't support IRIX anymore since it is EOL.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by fn-mote on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:39PM (#50400015)

> I have yet to encounter any issues with either sudo-rs

I feel like this is just ignoring the issues raised in the post, or saying “well, I didn’t use those features so I don’t care”.

You personally not caring is ok. The distro not caring is generating some hate.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by jeroenhd on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:45PM (#50400057)

I'm answering the question "why do people use Ubuntu".

I'm also of the opinion that sometimes change is good. The Linux world is held back by design decisions and quirks coded into ancient operating systems that have long since died.

Luckily for the people on old Ubuntu versions, Ubuntu 24.04 without the sudo-rs rewrite will be supported until May 2034 or May 2039 if you pay up. The sudo-rs people have about 7-8 years to fix any problems that might exist before you have to think about doing `sudo do-release-upgrade`.

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