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Re:Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:20AM (#33467116)
> That is a huge security benefit and pretty standard across desktop OS these days.

But is it really though? That's the parent was alluding to.

I have the same feelings - all my important data are readable/writeable as my user, if I somehow manages to run a malicious program as my normal user it's game over as far as I'm concerned, having root would cause no extra damage.