Video: sudo-rs and beyond (Ubuntu Summit 25.10)

This article was originally posted on the Trifecta Tech Foundation blog, the non-profit backed by Tweede golf and the long-term home for open infrastructure projects like sudo-rs.

About sudo-rs

sudo-rs is a safety-oriented and memory-safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It was initiated by Prossimo, built by a joint team from Ferrous Systems and Tweede golf, and has since moved to Trifecta Tech Foundation to ensure long-term maintenance.

It is meant to be a drop-in replacement for all common use cases of sudo, i.e. supporting all commonly used command line options from the original sudo implementation.

This also means that some parts of the original sudo are explicitly not in scope. To learn about the considerations that were made, watch the recording of Marc's talk:

About Marc

Marc Schoolderman is a Software Developer at Tweede golf, and the lead engineer of sudo-rs. He enjoys low-level programming, and working with a team of skilled engineers in an open source environment. Previously, he spent time in academia, researching ways to make formal verification practical. In his spare time, Marc likes solving non-existing problems using bash+awk+sed, learning about history, and dabbling in analogue photography.

About Trifecta Tech Foundation

Trifecta Tech Foundation is a non-profit and a Public Benefit Organisation (501(c)(3) equivalant) that creates open-source building blocks for critical infrastructure software. Their initiatives Data compression, Time synchronization and Privilege boundary, impact the digital security of millions of people. Find out how to support their work here.