Is Sudo a good candidate for a Rust rewrite?

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  • please

    • To prove my point, there's already a sudo replacement written in rust: https://gitlab.com/edneville/please . How many distributions even have a package for it? How many ship it by default?

  • doas

    A port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and illumos

    • No, it's mostly because sudo is FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND lines of C code, sudo is extremely bloated for what it does (running a command with elevated privileges). A similar BSD utility such as doas has 4000 lines of C code and doas has only 2 discovered vulnerabilities so far whereas sudo has 140.

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  • rudo

    A toy sudo clone written in Rust

    • There is a project called rudo. https://github.com/shawnanastasio/rudo

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