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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better sudo alternative or higher similarity.
sudo discussion
sudo reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of sudo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-02-02.
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Sudo (CVE-2021-3156) - I went looking for a CVE exploit and found a different bug instead, which got patched.
The commit fixing the bug is here
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Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years
I am not sure sudo is licensed under MIT or GPL, looks like a mix of licenses:
https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/main/LICENSE.md
The end of the first license says it's sponsored in part by DARPA.
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Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?
Looking at the example of sudo it seems there are still plenty of regular and recent commits.
https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commits/main/
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Run0 – systemd based alternative to sudo announced
It depends on whether sudo was compiled with --disable-env-reset or not, it's on by default[1].
Also some variables are inherited regardless (e.g. DISPLAY, TERM), and some useful ones (e.g. HOME) are initialized by sudo, but I can't tell where that's done.
[1]: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/ef52db46f9b375d7ff...
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Sudo for Windows
Side note that I've always found interesting: sudo is almost entirely maintained by one dude: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors
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Rowhammer Resistant Coding in Sudo
The n=2 case also occurs in the commit: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d3103...
And indeed, the two values ate bitwise complements.
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The First Stable Release of a Rust-Rewrite Sudo Implementation
One feature they didn't mention they left out was the ability to run `make me a sandwich` (https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/main/Makefile.in#L...)
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to Linus Torvalds, maybe?
It's (kind of) back - https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872872cf09757b0439c54089707
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Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su
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sudo-project/sudo is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of sudo is C.
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