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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 week ago by randomname@scribe.disroot.org to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] mech@feddit.org 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is the state of free software, especially when it matures.

The state of free software also includes the fact that even if the sudo maintainer doesn't find support, no one steps up and sudo becomes unmaintained, sudo-rs, doas, opendoas, run0 and please already exist as alternatives.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and let's not forget - systemd, which has RedHat money backing it up.

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hope you don't see who pays for kernel development…

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why? I'm not against developers getting paid to do FOSS work. It's far more reasonable than the whole "bazaar of free people"-model that lives entirely on ideology.

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, mb then. I read that comment as complaining about corpos involvement in FOSS.

And yeah, people should be compensated, specially if they are the backbone making billions of profit to companies.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

hang on, there's one called please? Are there any downsides with using please instead of sudo?

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It promotes familiarity with the machine which is best to avoid. Except of course if the machine uprising happens, then it would be in you favour to have been using it for years.

[–] mech@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what I can see, it's a sudo clone with added optional regex functionality, written in Rust.
So you can use it just like sudo, or you can limit superuser rights to directory names that contain a 💩 emoji, but only on Mondays.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Interesting. I just found out that you can just use alias to use please instead of sudo which is cool!