It seems more nuanced than that. Reading over the pull request I saw that brought up, but the “they” was referring to a developer receiving a feedback from the application in some way.
Note that the anon user is able to become root without password by default, as a development convenience.
(-) To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and he will no longer be able to run /bin/su.
(+) To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and they will no longer be able to run /bin/su.
“It” does seem like the way to go here, as it is referring to a built-in “anon” user account (best as I can tell).
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It seems more nuanced than that. Reading over the pull request I saw that brought up, but the “they” was referring to a developer receiving a feedback from the application in some way.
“It” does seem like the way to go here, as it is referring to a built-in “anon” user account (best as I can tell).