🐧 A long time ago, back in the 2.6 kernel era, I saw a kernel patch that gave any user whose primary groupid was set to 0 (root group) to have read access to any file or block node on the system, regardless of the file's permissions. Does something like t

How hard would it be to implement this in 5.x or 6.x, as the vfs framework has certainly changed a lot since the 2.6 days? It's something I want to explore for the purpose of giving junior admins ability to poke around on production systems without giving them full superuser perms, as well as for backup software to do its job without superuser privs.