Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On Sat, 3 May 2025 08:18:34 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of
disappeared.

 
$ sudo su

Yeah, but sudo asks for your credentials and you have to be in the sudoers
list. Back around 2000 we were very security conscious. All the AIX and
Linux boxes all had the same password for root. It was handy.

I don't know if AIX had sudo but we had a app called gosu which everybody
compiled, set to 4755, and chown'd to root while logged in as root.