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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  • sbird@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

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

    • Brickhead92@lemmy.world
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      8 hours 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
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      8 hours ago

      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.

      • sbird@sopuli.xyz
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        7 hours ago

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