On Mon, 2026-08-03 at 16:46 -0500, David C Rankin wrote:
> On 8/3/26 8:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I know that a subscriber went to the trouble of setting up "doas",
> > but if I recall correctly, in some cases it doesn't work well with
> > Arch Linux.
> > 
> > I find it unacceptable to do away with sudo or a replacement
> > entirely and rely solely on su, for various reasons.
> 
> This was recently discussed on opensuse-factory as well, with the same
> sentiment. sudo is practically ingrained in 30 years of Linux backend 
> scripts and system administration workloads. There would be
> significant breakage and disruption by its removal.
> 
> While the idea may be to protect users, the disruption to system 
> administration would be severe. The policy of "go fast and break
> things" isn't a sane policy regarding sudo.

That link isn't just about sudo-rs:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/should-i-use-sudo-or-sudo-rs/183243

I just remembered pkexec. https://xkcd.com/927/

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