It’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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    • SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      The article points out that sudo has already been forked by Ubuntu maintainer canonical into sudo-rs which reimplements sudo in rust with better memory protections. It also states that the maintainer of sudo expects sudo-rs to be the future of sudo.

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      You can fork it. Are you gonna maintain your fork? Is your fork going to be adopted by the majority of distributions?