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DonHopkinstoday at 8:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Unix used to have a user named "bin" just for owning all the binaries and performing installs.


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sinsudotoday at 8:31 AM

The old bin user is an idea that could be modernized with a new two level sudo concept, the higher one for recovery and diagnosis, already done in Chromebook and other solutions

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