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hedora
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Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu
sudo-rs doesn’t gratuitously require a root privilege daemon that regularly ships filesystem destruction and remote unauthenticated arbitrary code execution bugs.
If your bar is “I’ll tolerate such crap”, you may as well run your desktop session as root.
zahlman
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If sudo does this, as you imply, why do Linux system still exist that are not part of a botnet?
paulddraper
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Implication is that systemd does this, not sudo.
Vilian
on May 7, 2025
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Nice technical argument, did Lennart bite you while you where sleeping?
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If your bar is “I’ll tolerate such crap”, you may as well run your desktop session as root.