 | | Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Richard Franks
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| | | | | (...) too, although I may just be obsessed about cool t-shirts as all of mine suck :) Richard (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Christopher Lannan
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| | | | (...) Well, I'm never bashful about being ignorant so here goes: I don't get it. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Aaron West
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| | | | (...) Just sounds like bad English, to me. I also am ignorant. Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) log onto any UNIX system and go find out what a UID is (it's the unique number assigned to a userid on the system). Then go find out how to display UIDs of various users, and go find out what the UID is for root, and you'll get it. Assuming (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Christopher Lannan
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| | | | (...) so I know that root is "the Man" on a UNIX system. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) The sysadmin, to be exact. UID 0 is the superuser account, which has auithority to do, essentially, anything. Usually this is called root. It is possible, but very unusual, to have the superuser account as another name instead of root (aka, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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