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Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 | and status update on rust coreutils and rust PGP
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Take all the power away from the end user and give it all to Poettering, NO FUCKING THANKS.
sudo-rs doesn't have anything to do with run0. Please take your pills grandpa, we're worried about you.
Edit: in case you're actually an older person, the latter part wasn't meant as a swipe (just saw your pfp). In that case, sorry!
@FooBarrington What you are advocating is taking power away from the user. Go install WIndows 11 if this is what you want punk.
What? No I'm not. Using a memory-safe implementation of sudo doesn't take any power away from the user, how does that make sense?
@FooBarrington You didn't just specify memory safe, you advocated stripping away a number of features. Yes memory safe anything is a good idea and I've got no objection to the use of rust, I think it's a good language, one of the few worthwhile efforts to emerge in recent years, but if it is going go be re-implemented, do so fully. Yes, anything that runs with privileges should be memory safe else it's open to attack and Rust certainly makes that more possible, I am just concerned about the limiting feature set aspect. I'm not in favor of protecting users from themselves, I don't want a car that is capable of reading speed limit signs and prevents me from exceeding them even if doing so might be unsafe or illegal, that not the car manufacturers job to be come an arm of the government, likewise I don't want Linux protecting me from myself, I already address potentials with regular backups, etc.
Less is more.
Don't install Ubuntu 25.10 if this isn't what you want. Using Ubuntu means accepting that they're going to make a lot of decisions about your system. The whole point of these large pre-configured Linux distros is that they make all of the decisions for you.
If you want more control than that try installing one of the other distros that allow you to choose the software you want.
@FauxLiving I've been using Ubuntu for about 14 years and in the past they've been at least somewhat interested in user input. I hope "don't become another fucking Microsoft" is a message that Canonical gets.
chill