sudo
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5recommend
7warn against
Nov 15, 2025first mention
Aug 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“configure sudo correctly”
“I love the hell out of the program; it's an essential part of how I get shit done on my PC.”
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“Or here. https://opencollective.com/sudo-project”
“Can donate there.”
“why this project is still under active development”
Caveats and dissent
“For servers, sudo or a package manager etc should not exist”
“Not on my Linux workstation though. No sudo command installed.”
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“I don't use sudo.”
“what does sudo even protect anymore”
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Threads where it came up
- Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years 13 mentions
- TanStack NPM Packages Compromised 2 mentions
- Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords 2 mentions
- APT Rust requirement raises questions 2 mentions
- I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead) 1 mention
- Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? 1 mention
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All comments 27
“configure sudo correctly”
“doas is ~1k lines vs 160k for sudo”
“I use sudo -A with some openssh ui for sudo.”
“For servers, sudo or a package manager etc should not exist”
“Not on my Linux workstation though. No sudo command installed.”
“I don't use sudo.”
“what does sudo even protect anymore”
“I doubt it would have happened with the original sudo”
“I love the hell out of the program; it's an essential part of how I get shit done on my PC.”
“I use use sudo or doas as a regular user once logged in.”
“Some insecure things on Linux: Dbus (kwallet etc.), sudo, fprint”
https://github.com/microsoft/sudo?tab=readme-ov-file#relationship-to-sudo-on-unixlinux > This project is not a fork of the Unix/Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of that sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo concept.
“I wonder if sudo would be better off joining one of those open source foundations”
“You do realize the answer is right there: https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/”
“Or here. https://opencollective.com/sudo-project”
“sudo has A LOT of features that 95% of people don't use”
“Can donate there.”
“why this project is still under active development”
“I am not sure sudo is licensed under MIT or GPL”
“I'm kind of shocked that sudo gets active development and monthly releases.”
That's a nice slogan, but how does it work? Say, I clone sudo. Clearly, a human applying freedom zero. I use it in my projects. Probably still freedom zero. I use it in my CI pipeline for the stuff that makes me money... corporation or human? If it's corporation, what if I sponsor a not-for-profit that provides that piece of CI infra? The problem is that "corporation or not" has more shades than you can reasonably ac
“The purpose is to allow users access by ldap criteria like group”
“wouldn't https://github.com/sponsors/sudo-project achieve the same thing in this case?”
“Machine Room Temperature” from Todd C. Miller’s website: https://www.millert.dev/therm/ Server exhaust fan temperature was typically 94°F (ranged 92°F to 96°F) over the previous week and has climbed to 97°F.
“Battle tested is not bulletproof”
“sudo is not fully battle tested, even today.”
“Even after 40 years of battle-hardening, it has had buffer overflow and double free vulnerabilities”