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b112today at 8:19 AM1 replyview on HN

For more than four decades, typing a password after a sudo prompt in a Linux terminal

What?!

2026 minus 46 is 1980. There was no Linux, at all, in 1980.

Someone is quite confused.


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throawayonthetoday at 8:45 AM

sudo is from 1980, that's probably what they meant

https://www.sudo.ws/about/history/

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