trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

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A memory safe implementation of sudo and su.

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Indexed issues: 68
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Merged PRs (30d): 4

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 31, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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68 open issues indexed

Add safeguards in the code to prevent accidental leakage of file system info Open

chore enhancement

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1679 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2026
sudo-rs cannot authenticate via stdin when no TTY is present, breaking Ansible (and any tool using `sudo -S`) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1668 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Groups added by `pam_group` are not added by sudo Open

C-exec C-pam consultation enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1665 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
"I'm afraid I can't do that" error message is unclear Open

C-cli enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1659 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Ensure FileLock doesn't outlive the locked file Open

C-operatingsystem chore

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1653 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Should "garbage at end of line" be a hard error? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1618 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Support config paths under /usr/ Open

enhancement

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1610 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 7, 2026
Fingerprinting problems Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1609 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Support Ctrl+W to clear password field Open

consultation enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1596 · 5 comments · Opened May 22, 2026
Error messages and askpass logic differs from sudo.ws when no tty is available Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1595 · Opened May 22, 2026
Provide user custom prompts to PAM modules not using sudo PAM conversation Open

enhancement waiting-on-upstream

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1594 · 1 comment · Opened May 22, 2026
Should parse errors be committed to the syslog? Open

consultation enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1587 · Opened May 18, 2026
`Timeout_Spec` support for sudoers user specification Open

C-exec enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1582 · 3 comments · Opened May 10, 2026
Interactive password prompt broken when sudo-rs is invoked from non-standard PTY setups (e.g., kiro-cli) Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1579 · 5 comments · Opened May 4, 2026
Create example PAM config files? Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1564 · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Support I/O logging Open

C-exec enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1553 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Add `make install`? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1552 · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Cirrus CI is shutting down Open

CI freebsd

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1543 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2026
Password Echo Regression with Ghostty Open

enhancement wontfix

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1532 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 29, 2026
Restore `includedir::ignores_and_warns` test for ogsudo Open

non-compliant test-framework waiting-on-upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1520 · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Recommend to set as symlink rather than alias Open

documentation external-packaging good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1478 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Spurious hang of mark_fds_as_cloexec test Open

CI test-framework

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1475 · Opened Feb 24, 2026
Use std::io::pipe once MSRV is 1.87 Open

msrv test-framework

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1471 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
Implement regression test for the state of the signal handlers Open

test-framework

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1462 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 18, 2026
-p/--prompt behaviour breaks ansible Open

C-pam enhancement wontfix

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1461 · 6 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Feb 18, 2026
Remove DisplayOsStr once MSRV is 1.87 Open

msrv

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1456 · Opened Feb 16, 2026
Create integration test for preserving O_FLAG Open

test-framework

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1390 · Opened Dec 15, 2025
Discourage modification of generated .man files Open

CI

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1389 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2025
Better handling of closed user tty Open

C-exec enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1379 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 9, 2025
Spurious failure of sudo::syslog::sudo_logs_every_executed_command Open

CI test-framework

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1371 · Opened Dec 2, 2025
Spurious failure of sudo::pass_auth::tty::correct_password Open

CI test-framework

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1370 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2025
regexes are not supported Open

C-checker C-parser enhancement wontfix

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1350 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2025
Respect passwd_timeout for clear text inputs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1342 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2025
Version numbering Open

consultation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1328 · Opened Nov 11, 2025
Add support for `-E` (`--preserve-env`) Open

enhancement wontfix

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1299 · 50 comments · 41 reactions · Opened Oct 10, 2025
test_traverse_secure_open_positive() makes assumptions about current directory Open

external-packaging

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1297 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2025
test failure during Fedora build of 0.2.9: common::context::tests::test_build_run_context Open

external-packaging

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1293 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2025
Spurious failure of can_control_retry_delay_using_pam test Open

CI test-framework

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1280 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Re-instate compliance test for original sudo Open

test-framework waiting-on-upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1270 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2025
Implement `passprompt` Open

C-pam consultation enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1267 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Add possibility in `defaults/settings_dsl` for "deprecated" features. Open

chore enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1253 · Opened Aug 29, 2025
Let `sudoedit` detect every write to the temporary file. Open

C-sudoedit suggestion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1233 · Opened Jul 29, 2025
Use `FileSystemLoop` as soon as MSRV allows Open

msrv waiting-on-upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1227 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2025
sudoedit does not clean up files when terminated by a signal Open

non-compliant

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1222 · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Put reading of files from a container in `Env` Open

chore good first issue test-framework

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1217 · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Create a newtype for resolved paths Open

chore minor

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1191 · Opened Jul 11, 2025
Authentication failure on Arch Linux with base sudo removed Open

external-packaging help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1182 · 9 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Add warning when a relative path is part the path used for resolving commands Open

C-checker enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1153 · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Support NOEXEC on FreeBSD Open

C-exec C-operatingsystem freebsd wontfix

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1078 · Opened Apr 23, 2025
Add `EXAMPLES` section to `man sudoers` Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs#1005 · Opened Feb 24, 2025

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