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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not part of uutils but I've been using sudo-rs on all of my NixOS systems for over a year, and it's been great.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What's the difference from your normal sudo?

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.kya.moe 6 points 2 days ago

I can actually read the code

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not much, just says sudo-rs instead of sudo, and it's memory safe. I think there might be some missing features for really advanced multi-tenant setups, but for single user machines, it's the perfect successor to sudo.

nixos also supports giving the sudo binary a setuid flag that only allows members of the wheel group to use sudo, preventing any privilege escalation attacks from your services/servers.