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[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

ugh transphobia rots people's brains

it's not too hard to just be a decent person ppl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but there's no transphobia here. Stop spreading nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, you keep saying that but never explain why/how. Like, why refuse such a small change so aggressively?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

The documentation has long since been changed.

Note that the anon user is able to become root without a password by default, as a development convenience. To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and it will no longer be able to run /bin/su.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a2a6bc534868773b9320ec3ca7399283cf7a375b (this seems to have also switched to gender neutral language in other parts.'of the documentation and comments as well).

Original drama: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814