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Unix used to have a user named "bin" just for owning all the binaries and performing installs.


The old bin user is an idea that could be modernized with a new two level sudo concept, the higher one for recovery and diagnosis, already done in Chromebook and other solutions


bin passwords I will always remember: At the University of Maryland CS department systems the bin password was "fuck,you", and there was a devout Christian student on staff who had a problem with that, so we had to change it (to something harder to remember, I just can't recall).




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