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		Hendrikto 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years How is it not? A suid binary installed on pretty much every Unix system ever seems pretty critical to me.

mayhemducks 31 days ago [–]

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 30 days ago | [–]

And how do you switch to root? sudo is the most popular way

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