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sudo-rs Is Now The Default sudo Of Ubuntu 25.10
Earlier this year Canonical announced plans for using sudo-rs as the Rust-written sudo implementation by default for Ubuntu 25.10 along with Rust Coreutils and other Rust system components
The sudo-rs goal has been achieved with the newest Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs now using this sudo implementation by default. Canonical engineer Ravi Kant Sharma announced today that sudo-rs is now the default for Questing Quokka, the codename for Ubuntu 25.10. sudo-rs is the default sudo implementation on Ubuntu 25.10 and follows addressing some issues that came up during testing. sudo-rs has also made it as part of the Ubuntu Minimal base system.
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