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🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by anaisbetts »

tux3 wrote: post #25
warent wrote: post #24

For anyone wondering, this is basically a young millennial / gen z meme. The emoji is usually pronounced "pwease", as in a childlike pronunciation of "please" Therefore the command is basically just asking very nicely, hoping to get one's way edit. source: dude just trust me

Alternatively, a good chunk of my twitter feed would call this the bottom emoji, without attempting to give it a pronunciation. I don't think any particular pronunciation has consensus, but various groups of people imbue it different meanings.

It's the "step on me mommy" emoji

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by Waterluvian »

“ has no pronounceable name in English or any other speakable human language.”

I’m in love with this because it’s so silly. I’ve always wondered what would happen if you gave a company an unpronounceable name and it took off.

My guess is that the community would name it and that would be that. But I’m fascinated to witness that process happen.

I really hope Sado takes off. ;)

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by gnarbarian »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #104
xena wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did write an actual replacement. It's what TFA is about :)

> I did write an actual replacement. It's what TFA is about :) That is obviously not a replacement; either we take the serious approach of "sudo allows only authorized users to run things as root" and yours doesn't control access, or we take the nonserious approach of "sudo has so many bugs that it just gives people access" in which case we hardly need to bother rewriting it.

to me the solution seems fairly obvious, and as is tradition already exists in unix as groups.

sudo is for people who need root access. if you need anything less then create a custom group and assign the relevant specific rights there.

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Post by doodlesdev »

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #114

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Normally this is just tangentially related and not for Hacker News but I feel this time it needs a bit of attention.

My brain melted in the first minutes trying to read this article. I honestly just couldn't. It feels like I'm reading a mentally ill extremelly schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities, makes me lose sanity.

Has anyone actually managed to read this? How is this on the front page? (Not a rethoric question).

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by azalemeth »

mcculley wrote: post #107

The first time I saw perfectly valid Unicode take down an RSS reader (in ~2003), it was an ü that did it. I have taken to calling that the kaboomlaut in unit tests.

The are quite a lot of "gotchas" with passwords being Unicode though. One of my favourite tricks is to include a null byte in passwords and see what happens. Sudo treats it as the end of the string. Passwd gives "token manipulation error" and nopes out. Many websites seem to fail in interesting ways...

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by pxc »

warent wrote: post #24

For anyone wondering, this is basically a young millennial / gen z meme. The emoji is usually pronounced "pwease", as in a childlike pronunciation of "please" Therefore the command is basically just asking very nicely, hoping to get one's way edit. source: dude just trust me

It's officially called 'Face with Pleading Eyes', which also conveys the meaning. :)

https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A5%BA/

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