Why do people insist on doing this?
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I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing
It's almost like proprietary software is built to maximize shareholder profits above user friendliness
This week on "ancient unix hacks that are still somehow a core part of linux": Setuid
This week on "ancient unix hacks that are still somehow a core part of linux": Setuid - Lemmy.World
Explanation for newbies: setuid is a special permission bit that makes an executable run with the permissions of its owner rather than the user executing it. This is often used to let a user run a specific program as root without having sudo access. If this sounds like a security nightmare, that’s because it is [https://www.tenable.com/blog/tweetable-exploit-for-x-org-server-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2018-14665-released]. In linux, setuid is slowly being phased out by Capabilities. An example of this is the ping command which used to need setuid in order to create raw sockets, but now just needs the cap_net_raw capability. More info: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/382771/why-does-ping-need-setuid-permission [https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/382771/why-does-ping-need-setuid-permission]. Nevertheless, many linux distros still ship with setuid executables, for example passwd from the shadow-utils package.
I'd just like to interject for a moment
I'd just like to interject for a moment - Lemmy.World
Explanation for newbies: The GNU/Linux copypasta [https://stallman-copypasta.github.io/] is an argument made by Richard Stallman that the operating system should be referred to as “GNU/Linux” or “GNU+Linux” because linux is just the kernel and what makes it useful are the various GNU programs and libraries like coreutils and glibc. Alpine Linux [https://www.alpinelinux.org/] is a linux distribution that ships without any GNU software (though it can be installed using the package manager).
I donated to signal rule
Almost as annoying as the windows evangelists
Man I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixties
You just gotta think different
