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wow, I never realized sudo is from 1980[0]! I thought it was a product of the late '90s. It's actually incredible it has managed to stay around this long. [0]
by riffraff 6y ago
wow, I never realized sudo is from 1980[0]! I thought it was a product of the late '90s. It's actually incredible it has managed to stay around this long.
[0] https://www.sudo.ws/history.html https://www.sudo.ws/history.html
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoPffft, `sed` is from 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed And `ed` dates from 1969: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
- riffraff 6y agoah, yes, but those _felt_ as old as dirt. On the other side, I remember howtos/manuals/READMEs in the early '00s referring to su(1) and only sometimes saying "..these days you should be using sudo(8)", so it always felt like something "new" :)