Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday

On 31/07/2024 06:58, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

"Sudo" is a bad implementation which replaced "su".
which invoked superuser privileges.  You had to use  your root
account password but Ubuntu decided that was dangerous so to invoke
the same privileges you can use your user accont passwork.
     Canonical thought apparently that it was asking too
much of their projected userbase to remember User account
password and root password.

Sudo allowed tailored access by certain users to certain root privileges, that su did not.
It's a reasonable admin tool for a multiuser system.
But who tuns a true multiuser system these days especially one where users can do simple admin?
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