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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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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 03:03:10 GMT
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 18:49:48 GMT, "Christopher Lannan"
<shakguy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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, security by obscurity)- but it's
_always_ UID 0.
Jasper
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