Prossimo is pleased to announce the first stable release of sudo-rs, our Rust rewrite of the critical sudo utility. The sudo utility is one of the most common ways for engineers to cross the privacy boundary between user and administrative accounts in the ubiquitous Linux operating system. As such, its security is of the utmost importance. The sudo-rs project improves on the security of the original sudo by: Using a memory safe language (Rust), as it's estimated that one out of three security bugs in the original sudo have been memory management issues
    • snaggen@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If that works for you and you are happy with it, fine. But sudo-rs seems to have a bit of a different usecase since it is intended as a drop in replacement for sudo, hence it must be able to handle the sudoers file aso. It still removes some of the never-used obscure functionality that sudo had, so it is probably a lot smaller code base than original sudo.

      • lysdexic@programming.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        But sudo-rs seems to have a bit of a different usecase since it is intended as a drop in replacement for sudo, hence it must be able to handle the sudoers file aso.

        Other than being yet another “standard tool X clone written in Rust” project, does it actually provide any tangible value?