The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe sudo Implementation
The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe sudo Implementation
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, ...
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There was a nice talk at RustNL from the creators about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4vwJIO96Yo
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Cool, but I'll stick with opendoas
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.
What advantages does that have over this?
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Opendoas has a significantly smaller codebase. It only has 4397 lines of code compared to Sudo-rs's staggering 35990 lines.
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It has a very simple config file which can do everything I want in less than 6 words.
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It is a soft fork of BSD's doas package and receives frequent audits(something I find reassuring since it is a method to gain root access on my system.
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I don't want or need 99% of the features sudo provides so I appreciate the simplicity and lightness of opendoas
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