In message <20020304233744.C29114@goldberry.poofy.goof.com>,
Aaron J. Grier wrote:

>but if you sudo, then you become root, and the test for rootness
>succeeds and everything works as designed.

Yes.

Without knowing the root passwd. Without even having the root account
active. That's why sudo exists :-)

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