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Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
> one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure
It's really not.
Hendrikto
51 days ago
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How is it not? A suid binary installed on pretty much every Unix system ever seems pretty critical to me.
mayhemducks
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Living without it isn't hard IMO. It's more of a convenience. Most of the servers I ever login to only have one non-root user anyway. When I need root, I switch to root.
rurban
51 days ago
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And how do you switch to root? sudo is the most popular way
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It's really not.