sudo and su are rewritten in Rust

With the financial of Amazon Web , sudo and su are rewritten in the Rust programming language to increase memory safety to further enhance Linux security/.

sudo su

“Because it's written in C, sudo has faced a lot related to memory security issues", according with a publication which announces the :

“It's important to protect our most critical software, especially from memory security vulnerabilities. It is hard to imagine software that is more critical than sudo and su”.

This work is carried out by a joint team from Ferrous Systems and Tweede Golf with the generous support of Amazon Web Services. The plan you can it see here. The repository on GitHub is here.

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