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GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser (github.com)
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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ok, fair enough then. Could have been a simple misunderstanding.