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

On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:23:14 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v8cl8i$1fhag$1@dont-email.me>:

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 22:58:28 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
 

No he means "sudo" is going to be replaced with "run0."
<https://www.howtogeek.com/will-linux-run0-command-run-sudo-out-of-town/

 
sudo has been a running saga of security vulnerabilities. Poettering is
offering a much simpler design with a smaller attack surface. He actually
wants to do away with the whole idea of set-user-ID executables.

From the very beginning of our company (1994), we had no setuid
executables on our shell server.  (We finally discontinued the service at the
end of June -- the end of an era!)

I see now on this system (Mint 21.3) that ping is no longer setuid.
(Nowadays, it uses Linux capabilities.)  Back in the day, it was setuid,
but we replaced it with a client that reached out to a "ping server" that
did the job. 

--
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
   OS: Linux 6.11.0-rc1 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
   "Couldn't myself have better it said."