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by mrweasel 414 days ago
Ubuntu moving to a memory safe sudo implementation isn't actually that concerning to me. It's a good idea to have a smaller, safer sudo alternative as the default, as OpenBSD does with doas. Users can install sudo if they need it. My problem is that it needs to specifically be called something else than sudo. Again OpenBSD has doas, which to the users clearly isn't sudo, so users don't expect it to behave as sudo or configure as sudo.

By all means, write a better, safer, smaller, more secure version of sudo, but don't have command be sudo or sudo-rs, name it something else.