Sudo and su utilities rewritten in Rust for Unix-like systems.
Two core Unix-like utilities, sudo and su, are being rewritten in Rust by a joint team from Ferrous Systems and Tweede Golf, with support from Amazon Web Services, as part of a wider effort to replace critical but aging infrastructure pieces with memory-safe counterparts. The team believes that sudo, which was first developed in the 1980s and is written in C, has experienced many vulnerabilities related to memory safety issues. The project's work plan and milestones are posted, and you can track the work on GitHub.