It’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.
It’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.
The article points out that sudo has already been forked by Ubuntu maintainer canonical into sudo-rs which reimplements sudo in rust with better memory protections. It also states that the maintainer of sudo expects sudo-rs to be the future of sudo.
sudo-rs is a complete re-implementation, not a fork. Also, sudo-rs was not created by Canonical. It was created by Tweede Golf and Ferrous System with funding from Prossimo. Since 2024 it is being maintained by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Ubuntu merely packages it.
sudo-rs is not a fork.
That’s good, at least everything won’t collapse catastrophically at this like a single point of failure without any redundancies. It would be better if someone other than canonical would do it, but at least it’s not like no one is…