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TIL the sudo command has a logo (lemmy.nz)
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- Sudo Sandwich Logo
The current sudo logo, © 2019 by Mark Stillman and licensed under CCBY 4.0.
It was inspired by xkcd 149.

- Sudo Shield Logo
The previous sudo logo, © 2010 by Trent Badger and licensed under CCBY 4.0.

Source: https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/

If interested in alternatives, I've been also using another standard setuid when no sudo is available, and gosu in Docker/Containers for convenience and less size of the binary. These are marvelous optins, too!

Related:
- https://xkcd.com/149/ (Sandwich...)
- https://github.com/tianon/gosu (Simple Go-based setuid+setgid+setgroups+exec...)

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