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.
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.
The state of free software also includes the fact that even if the
sudomaintainer doesn’t find support, no one steps up andsudobecomes unmaintained,sudo-rs,doas,opendoasandpleasealready exist as alternatives.hang on, there’s one called please? Are there any downsides with using please instead of sudo?
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.
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.
Interesting. I just found out that you can just use alias to use please instead of sudo which is cool!
and let’s not forget - systemd, which has RedHat money backing it up.
Hope you don’t see who pays for kernel development…
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.