Thank you! This is the sole comment in the thread that answers the question I was asking. Also from the article: >Wait... sudo? Giving sudo rights means you m

Thank you! This is the sole comment in the thread that answers the question I was asking. Also from the article: >Wait... sudo? Giving sudo rights means you might as well not have separate users at all. >Bollocks! ...and how we got there is was my question. Still, there's more mystery. Privileged ports can't explain why the user has to jump through the hoops for software that doesn't need to bind itself to ports. So, how did it come to packages requiring sudo in most distros?