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Enable unattended security upgrades

Ubuntu / Debian · medium · solved in-browser (no VM needed) · 3 tiered hints

Write /home/player/50unattended-upgrades enabling the Origins-Pattern for the security archive (a line referencing ${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-security). (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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