Canonical is evil.

If I wanted to use nano, I suppose I might run something like "nanosudo"

BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT I RAN.

It only took me about 30 seconds of flailing before I noticed the garbage at the bottom of the screen.

With a focus on usability, @almalinux OS 10 has been released
https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/AlmaLinux-OS-10-Released?utm_source=mam
#EnterpriseLinux #AlmaLinux #RHEL #cryptography #OpenSSH #sudo #SecureBoot

#TIL that `sudo -K` will clear the credential cache, and cause the *next* #sudo command to prompt for a password as if you hadn't used the command recently.

*sigh* another *nix tutorial, another "configure sudo to not require a password."

Does nobody understand that the password requirement is a security feature? Especially in this day and age of "copy this code and paste it into a terminal" (ugh)?

3 Sudo Commands That Will Impress Your Terminal (and Your Cat)

https://video.fosshq.org/w/cM14b8KEePZFFhSvLFXNFe

Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo #news #rust #sudo #ubuntu_25.10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-rust-sudo-rs-change

My #GNU #Linux Journey – Part 1: Discovering the Arch Way

When I first installed #ArchLinux, I quickly realized it wasn’t like other systems. Nothing came preinstalled. No GUI installer. No sudo. No editor. Just a prompt. And that was the best thing that could’ve happened.

Here’s what I actually learned:

That a Linux “installation” is often just a well-organized file extraction. No registry. No black box like in #Windows.

That #pacman is a powerful tool and #sudo doesn’t work until you configure it. I had to add my user to the #wheel group and use #visudo, a special editor to safely modify sudoers.

That my user password, not root’s, is used for sudo – which felt secure and efficient once I understood the logic.

I didn’t just get a system running – I learned what a system is.

The one thing that makes systemd run0 annoying to use is that it'll ask you every time for the password. With sudo you have this 10 minutes where it won't ask again.

I know the technical reasons, but still this drives me back to sudo.

I have permission

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1668-250c-a668-625647116986

Doas I tell you.

https://youtu.be/eLUgJHoQJYI

Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) will default to sudo-rs, a Rust-based reimplementation of sudo, aiming for better security and memory safety.
https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-25-10-will-default-to-rust-powered-sudo-rs/

Ubuntu 25.10 will include sudo-rs

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will include sudo-rs by default as part of a plan to use more Rust-based core system components, such as the Rust CoreUtils “uutils” that will replace the standard GNU CoreUtils written in C. According to the MemorySafety blog, both sudo and su have been rewritten in Rust to ensure that they are memory safe, in comparison to the standard ones that are written in the 1980s.

Earlier, the Rust-based CoreUtils is used as part of a plan that allows Canonical to migrate from the older CoreUtils to the newer one to ensure memory safety. Although there is a drawback involving uutils’ bigger size in comparison to the GNU version, memory safety is more important. Because of this downside, it’s possible that the Docker containers may still use the traditional GNU CoreUtils.

Currently, sudo-rs is maintained by Trifecta Tech Foundation, which announced that Canonical confirmed the sudo-rs migration. This non-profit organization has also announced that this move was “part of a broader effort by Canonical to improve the resilience and maintainability of core system components.”

All this is part of the broader plan that will make sure that Ubuntu uses the Rust infrastructure.

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #sudo #sudoRs #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #UbuntuLinux #update

sudo apt install --yes follow-me

I've been investigating #sudo alternatives. Just finished a short article on the topic: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/30755.html Would be interested to hear if you use a sudo alternative on your system and if so, which program do you prefer and why? #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #C #Linux #AIX #Windows

My work Mac has a very secure password so I have enjoyed setting it up to use Touch ID for sudo. I have not enjoyed that that configuration gets blown away on every update.

However I have now discovered (2 years late) that instead of /etc/pam.d/sudo you can use sudo_local and have it survive OS updates.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2023/08/24/touch-id-sudo-command-terminal-tutorial/

Did I just sing out loud "sudo !!" to Ricky Martin's Shake Your Bon-Bon?

You bet I did.

I'll go around my login today
Don't say no, no
Sudo my way, oh

Sudo Bang-Bang
Sudo Bang-Bang
Sudo Bang-Bang

It would be a little niche, but I might have to do the full filk anyways.

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995.

Ubuntu is providing a tool to switch to uutils and sudo-rs. It is awesome and clearly a good move. The license change however is debatable.

uutils is a reimplementation of GNU utils in Rust, see this great article https://uutils.github.io/blog/2025-02-extending/.

sudo-rs is a reimplementation of sudo in Rust, see this great article https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/testing-sudo-rs/.