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Author: Alessandro Selli
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 at 20:12:40 +0100
Rowland Penny <rpenny@???> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:43:54 +0100
> Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, 'su' is just wrong, don't use it, always use sudo, and if you
>> can find a decent .deb of OpenBSD 'doas' ported to linux use that, it
>> is even better!
>>
>
> Just because you think using 'su' is wrong, doesn't make it wrong, it
> is just wrong for you.


He's actually right: the least the superuser's password is used, the better
and the safer.

> This is all down to the sysadmins decision and I thought one of the
> main ideas behind Devuan is that nothing is forced on the sysadmin.


Nowhere did I read Dave trying to take away people's freedom.
Security is important in it's own right, it's not something that takes away
people's freedom.