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22 August 2023

  • curprev 11:4011:40, 22 August 2023‎ Plinich talk contribs‎ 1,295 bytes +5‎ No edit summary
  • curprev 11:3911:39, 22 August 2023‎ Plinich talk contribs‎ 1,290 bytes +1,290‎ Created page with "Old World systems had a mechanism based around a program called <code>'''priv'''</code> which allowed unprivileged users to run scripts as root or as other users. New World systems can, nominally, use <code>sudo</code> instead, which achieves the same result. However, many long-term users are more familiar with <code>priv</code> and there are a large number of priv scripts in existence which do still-useful things. In particular, some priv scripts are used insid..."
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