Utility to execute a command as another user

Is sudo-project/sudo beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, sudo-project/sudo merged 24 of 27 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
1.7k
Forks
306
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
43
Avg merge
1d 8h
Merged PRs (30d)
24
Dominant language
C
License
No license data
Last GitHub push
Oct 13, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 13, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
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