branfont Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in order to increase the memory safety for the widely relied upon software. https://www.phoronix.com/news/sudo-su-rewrite-rust Sikh and hellowalkman 1 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1428608-sudo-su-being-rewritten-in-rust-for-memory-safety/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted May 2, 2023 Veteran Share Posted May 2, 2023 rewrites for security are good, but the problem with rewrites are, you never know if you are opening new holes or not... years of reviewing code vs new code which is suppose to be better but may have stuff people might miss... I say do it, but just make sure you have it well reviewed Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1428608-sudo-su-being-rewritten-in-rust-for-memory-safety/#findComment-598817389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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