Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition

(omgubuntu.co.uk)

15 points | by campuscodi 12 hours ago ago

9 comments

  • 0_____0 11 hours ago ago

    Oh good! I thought they'd gotten rid of the sudo Lecture that comes up when you first use it. With great power... And so forth.

    • nxobject 10 hours ago ago

      Well, I will admit that I find the first part jarring: "we trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator." I'm like: I'm running this on OpenWRT, so should I go to a local university to talk to a actual *nix sysadmin?

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    • sevenseacat 7 hours ago ago

      This incident will be reported!!

  • sherr 6 hours ago ago

    There are alternatives to sudo other than the new Rust version here.

    "doas" [1] comes from OpenBSD and is a smaller (LOC) tool, easier to audit and keep secure (supposedly). Also available for Linux.

    Also "run0" [2], another alternative that comes from the Linux/Systemd camp, using "polkit" and is similar to "systemd-run".

    [1] https://man.openbsd.org/doas.1

    [2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/257/run0.ht...

  • alexjurkiewicz 7 hours ago ago

    I wish sudo-rs and all projects being used in production would suck it up and release a major version v1. Seeing v0.xxx on a program used by Ubuntu as a base system utility is ridiculous. You don't have to try and contort the version numbers of a user-facing utility to fit into the semver API spec, but at least bump to v1.0.0 and continue from there!

  • pss314 8 hours ago ago

    sudo-rs is one of the initiatives of Prossimo https://www.memorysafety.org/

  • worthless-trash 8 hours ago ago

    Ubuntu hasn't had 40 years of it to make 40 years of tradition.

  • add-sub-mul-div 10 hours ago ago

    Decades of real world use and hardening are more valuable than anything a rewrite can promise or provide. But the not-invented-recently culture comes for everything.