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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[–] 131 points 9 months ago (6 children)

imagine if he said fuck it and turned sudo into a crypto mining malware

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    To be honest, it wouldn't take much for distro maintainers to detect that and stop it

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    But who is seriously looking at the sudo code at every update. I would bet a lot of money that the vast majority simply trust him and gloss over it maximum.

    The chain of trust has to exist otherwise distrobox maintainers would spend 24 hours a day reviewing code changes and only update once every 6 months.

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