alt.hn

3/1/2026 at 1:10:51 AM

Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition

 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-sudo-password-asterisks

by campuscodi

3/1/2026 at 2:09:46 AM

Oh good! I thought they'd gotten rid of the sudo Lecture that comes up when you first use it. With great power... And so forth.

by 0_____0

3/1/2026 at 2:46:58 AM

Well, I will admit that I find the first part jarring: "we trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator." I'm like: I'm running this on OpenWRT, so should I go to a local university to talk to a actual *nix sysadmin?

by nxobject

3/1/2026 at 6:13:59 AM

This incident will be reported!!

by sevenseacat

3/1/2026 at 6:58:47 AM

There are alternatives to sudo other than the new Rust version here.

"doas" [1] comes from OpenBSD and is a smaller (LOC) tool, easier to audit and keep secure (supposedly). Also available for Linux.

Also "run0" [2], another alternative that comes from the Linux/Systemd camp, using "polkit" and is similar to "systemd-run".

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/doas.1

[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/257/run0.ht...

by sherr

3/1/2026 at 2:18:36 PM

> Also "run0" [2], another alternative that comes from the Linux/Systemd camp, using "polkit" and is similar to "systemd-run".

It literally is `systemd-run`, just with slightly different defaults (multi-call binary). Unlike `sudo` and `doas` it inherits almost nothing from where it gets launched, which can be very unexpected if you simply treat it as a drop-in replacement for the 2.

by NekkoDroid

3/1/2026 at 4:49:52 PM

“shoulder surfing” is not the problem. It’s people making videos or live streaming who will risk accidentally exposing password length.

by defaultcompany

3/1/2026 at 4:47:18 AM

Ubuntu hasn't had 40 years of it to make 40 years of tradition.

by worthless-trash

3/1/2026 at 2:33:43 AM

Decades of real world use and hardening are more valuable than anything a rewrite can promise or provide. But the not-invented-recently culture comes for everything.

by add-sub-mul-div

3/1/2026 at 6:25:52 AM

I wish sudo-rs and all projects being used in production would suck it up and release a major version v1. Seeing v0.xxx on a program used by Ubuntu as a base system utility is ridiculous. You don't have to try and contort the version numbers of a user-facing utility to fit into the semver API spec, but at least bump to v1.0.0 and continue from there!

by alexjurkiewicz