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On Sat, 3 May 2025 08:18:34 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>> I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of
>> disappeared.
> 
> $ sudo su

Yeah, but sudo asks for your credentials and you have to be in the sudoers 
list. Back around 2000 we were very security conscious. All the AIX and 
Linux boxes all had the same password for root. It was handy. 

I don't know if AIX had sudo but we had a app called gosu which everybody 
compiled, set to 4755, and chown'd to root while logged in as root.