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Re:Richard Stallman on why GNU su didn't support the “wheel”... by jandrese on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:45PM (#37179383)
Unix doesn't make it easy for an unprivileged user to switch to a different user account for just one app though. Plus it gets more complicated when your application wants to save something to the disk so it can be accessed by a different application.
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Re:Richard Stallman on why GNU su didn't support the “wheel”... by regularfry on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:59PM (#37179593)
"More complicated" but not by much. That's where groups come in.
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