Sudo would be a great name for a dog or puppy 🐶

sudo sit
sudo fetch ball
sudo sleep 8h
sudo killall intruder

#unix #linux

sudo cat sit # no response
sudo cat sleep 8h # walks away

@nixCraft

human is not in the sudoers file on host cat

@nixCraft Is not part of sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Meow.
@nixCraft and Sudo would just do what you tell him to do.
@nixCraft "doas" doesn't have quite the same ring to it 😅
@meatlotion just because its not yet pop culture. @nixCraft
@nixCraft but you wouldn't know whether to shout sue-do or pseudo
@nixCraft
Only problem is that a dog can't really make a sandwhich.
@nixCraft keep thinking about that joke by Steven Wright : He would name his dog Stay. “Come here Stay, come here Stay” 😂

@nixCraft

It was a similar situation with MSDOS prior to WINDOWS...

C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN\DOS\RUN

@nixCraft Friend had a cat called Grep

@megatronicthronbanks @nixCraft

I had a friend who named his very small, very destructive kitten init.
First rule: Thou shalt not kill init.

@nixCraft and root for a cat, since cats haven't forgotten the time they were considered gods

@nixCraft All you have to do, so people will shrug and accept is to tell them it's a cultural, traditional thing of your ancestral line, so you want the dog to have this deep connection to your cultural heritage and....

"The ancient peoples of the Xinu used 'Sudo' as a powerful invocation... The practice was continued by the Xunil peoples...."

Cc @sneakybastard @airballrad

@nixCraft Early versions of the program 'make' had terse error messages. If you typed

make love

'make' would print

"don't know how to make love"

While brevity may be the sole of wit, at teletype speeds, it was a real time saver.

@nixCraft @clive as long as no one says “sudo remove dasher slash”
@nixCraft sudo getaclue
sudo fetch me
sudo play music
sudo kill windows11
@nixCraft so because Spanish was my first language I still say it as “sue doh” - which in Spanish means “I sweat” 😅
@nixCraft gotta be ‘sudo killall -9 intruder’, otherwise you’re just asking the intruder nicely to kill themselves

@nixCraft

And when it forget the password?

passwd dog