Sudo appears to have only one core developer

Re:Sudo appears to have only one core developer by TheLoneWolfling on Monday June 15, 2015 @06:16PM (#9722486)

I was going to say this:

"And? It's a simple tool. It's not exactly the most complex thing in the world - it's not as though it needs multiple developers, as if/when the current dev drops the project another can easily step over".

And then I started flipping through some of the code. Man, sudo is complex. Much more so than one would naively assume.

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Re:Sudo appears to have only one core developer by cakes on Monday June 15, 2015 @08:45PM (#9723154)

I started to have that same thought and so looked at the code and of course my next thought was along the lines of "Well...I mean it isn't like it changes that much, right?" and realized that I probably use such a tiny subset of what sudo can do.

There is a lot more in the man page than I expected not to mention options I can even fathom needing (for myself, yet).

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Re:Sudo appears to have only one core developer by likeclockwork on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:48AM (#9724710)

You inspired me to read the sudo manpage, which I don't know if I've ever done.

Found "sudo -e", so convenient.

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Re:Sudo appears to have only one core developer by wmil on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @12:35AM (#9723848)

I'm actually more surprised that it's a single POSIX app. I would have assumed that there were separate GNU and BSD sudo projects.

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