The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo

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21 points | by wondersky a day ago ago

4 comments

  • bikvfeee 6 hours ago ago

    Could someone remind me why people use Ubuntu?

    I remember 20 years ago Ubuntu was marginally more user friendly. Is it the power of inertia? Ubuntu is just Debian actively made worse.

  • Vaushite 14 hours ago ago

    Tools have to be allowed to evolve. Half the Linux ecosystem's problems are caused by sticking on some design that made sense in 1980.

    At least the command is still called sudo or run0. Changing it to doas would have been a much more breaking change.

    Alas, TFA blocks me with no workaround because I'm using Tor Browser so I can't read about the nature of the changes.

    • bikvfeee 6 hours ago ago

      To many of us it's not about the features which you obliquely refer to when you say "evolve" but about licensing. It's extremely concerning that we're replacing GPL stuff for non GPL, and just as concerning that so many folks don't recognise this point.

  • orf 14 hours ago ago

    Sudoers glob expressions are a horrible footgun and I have little empathy for anyone complaining about their removal, especially when it’s trivial to fix with 3 extra (explicit) lines.