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Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 9 Dec 1999 18:49:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Aaron West wrote:
> >
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Christopher Lannan writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jasper Janssen writes:
> > > > http://www.smart.net/~hymowitz/house/plates.jpg
> > > >
> > > > Jasper
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> > > Well, I'm never bashful about being ignorant so here goes:
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> > > I don't get it.
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> > > Chris
> > Just sounds like bad English, to me.
> > I also am ignorant.
> > Aaron>maniac@vol.com
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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 you know what root is.
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> Some say that God has UID 0 on the UOS (Universe Operating System)
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> --
> Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
I just read a book called Cryptonomicon that had sme stuff about UNIX in it,
so I know that root is "the Man" on a UNIX system.
Chris
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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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| | Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
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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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