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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by WhyNotHugo on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:19PM (#50400331)
sudo.rs is a really weird direction for an evolution — it re-implements a complex piece of security dropping some arbitrary choices but keeping it pretty complex. It has the exact same security model. I honestly can't understand the appeal.

If you want something similar but simpler, go for doas.

If you need all the features in sudo, keep using sudo.

If you want to try new security models, try s6-sudo, or any other of various tools out there.

sudo-rs keeping the same name is actually a worse breakage — because it doesn't have the same API as sudo (as described by op), but has the same name and pretends to be a drop-in replacement while also not being a drop-in.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by egorfine on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:11AM (#50404278)
> I honestly can't understand the appeal.

Virtue signaling.

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by KitsumiTheFox on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:29AM (#50404394)
I fail to see how the term virtue signaling applies to what you highlighted, care to elaborate?
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by kelseyfrog on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:46AM (#50404486)
The virtues being signaled are trust, reliability, and generosity. The mechanism is rust-washing. Like greenwashing, rust-washing has the appearance of and takes credit for the virtues without actually delivering on them.
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by egorfine on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:52AM (#50404529)
Rust rewrites of existing rock stable applications is only done for performative reasons as there are no merits.
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by pjmlp on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:08AM (#50404664)
And pimp up my CV kind of stuff.
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by db48x on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:53PM (#50407472)
Sudo may not be as “rock stable” as you suppose. The sudo-rs project has discovered a number of exploitble bugs in sudo that had existed for years.

And remember that sudo was itself a replacement for earlier tools like su. It has no special claim to be the one and only tool for the job.

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