Prossimo is pleased to announce the first stable release of sudo-rs, our Rust rewrite of the critical sudo utility. The sudo utility is one of the most common ways for engineers to cross the privacy boundary between user and administrative accounts in the ubiquitous Linux operating system. As such, its security is of the utmost importance. The sudo-rs project improves on the security of the original sudo by: Using a memory safe language (Rust), as it's estimated that one out of three security bugs in the original sudo have been memory management issues

The sudo-rs project improves on the security of the original sudo by:

  • Using a memory safe language (Rust), as it’s estimated that one out of three security bugs in the original sudo have been memory management issues
  • Leaving out less commonly used features so as to reduce attack surface
  • Developing an extensive test suite which even managed to find bugs in the original sudo
  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nice… the code is readable and so are the tests. Good job.

    I bet there are many linux utilities still left to rewrite in rust.