• Ephera
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    2 days ago

    Heard just this week that uutils apparently has 100% compatibility with the GNU coreutils (so more than musl BusyBox aims for). That’s good, if distros start shipping it then. It’s not really something normal users would install themselves…

    • @mlflexer@lemm.ee
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      97 days ago

      They don’t seem to have 100% pass of the tests, but I might be missing something?

      Would love to take the jump, but I think I’ll wait until they pass all tests

      • Ephera
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        157 days ago

        Oh, it said “By ~2026, it will be 100% compliant”, which seems to just be an estimate based on the trend for how many tests they passed over the past years. My bad.

        But yeah, probably still useful to get it onto real systems now to find any other remaining bugs.

  • Justin
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    47 days ago

    Not part of uutils but I’ve been using sudo-rs on all of my NixOS systems for over a year, and it’s been great.

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        Not much, just says sudo-rs instead of sudo, and it’s memory safe. I think there might be some missing features for really advanced multi-tenant setups, but for single user machines, it’s the perfect successor to sudo.

        nixos also supports giving the sudo binary a setuid flag that only allows members of the wheel group to use sudo, preventing any privilege escalation attacks from your services/servers.