+0.25 Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition (www.omgubuntu.co.uk S:+0.20 )
14 points by campuscodi 11 hours ago | 8 comments on HN | Mild positive Editorial · v3.7 · 2026-03-01 08:52:20 0
Summary Technical Information Access Acknowledges
This is a technical news article about a password visibility feature in Ubuntu 26.04. The content engages mildly with rights to privacy (Article 12) through discussion of password security, freedom of information (Article 19) through technical journalism, and education/cultural participation (Articles 26-27) through sharing of technical knowledge. The overall evaluation is neutral to mildly positive, reflecting technical information sharing rather than explicit human rights advocacy.
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Editorial Mean +0.25 Structural Mean +0.20
Weighted Mean +0.25 Unweighted Mean +0.23
Max +0.36 Article 19 Min +0.10 Article 27
Signal 4 No Data 27
Volatility 0.09 (Low)
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SETL ℹ +0.09 Editorial-dominant
FW Ratio ℹ 51% 36 facts · 35 inferences
Evidence 5% coverage ℹ
2M 2L 27 ND
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Foundation Security Legal Privacy & Movement Personal Expression Economic & Social Cultural Order & Duties Foundation: 0.00 (0 articles) Security: 0.00 (0 articles) Legal: 0.00 (0 articles) Privacy & Movement: 0.26 (1 articles) Personal: 0.00 (0 articles) Expression: 0.36 (1 articles) Economic & Social: 0.00 (0 articles) Cultural: 0.15 (2 articles) Order & Duties: 0.00 (0 articles)
HN Discussion 6 top-level · 2 replies
0_____0 2026-03-01 02:09 UTC link
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.
add-sub-mul-div 2026-03-01 02:33 UTC link
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.
pss314 2026-03-01 04:28 UTC link
sudo-rs is one of the initiatives of Prossimo https://www.memorysafety.org/
worthless-trash 2026-03-01 04:47 UTC link
Ubuntu hasn't had 40 years of it to make 40 years of tradition.
alexjurkiewicz 2026-03-01 06:25 UTC link
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!
sherr 2026-03-01 06:58 UTC link
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...

nxobject 2026-03-01 02:46 UTC link
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?
sevenseacat 2026-03-01 06:13 UTC link
This incident will be reported!!
Editorial Channel
What the content says
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Article 19 Freedom of Expression
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Article 26 Education
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