rogramming techniques" or
2) "toxic waste" ?
> -Original Message-
> From: The Cat In The Hat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Hmmm...
What is the difference between ROOT and GOD?
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God has mercy.
Thanks,
CatNTHat
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From:Kelly Lynn Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:23:11 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Users, groups
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:31:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>The short form is: root cannot be denied /anything/.
Well, not entirely. UID 0 merely bypasses all permission checks, and
can execute certain privileged system calls. Root still cannot do the
impossible. :)
Kelly
Wow, lots of misunderstandings and misinformation, here.
To say that "you cannot duplicate root" is fairly misleading. I
charge you to create an account, give it uid 0, and start playing
around. You'll quickly find that you can do anything that root
can do, including all kinds of silliness ("ki
I will learn how to reply...
I will learn how to reply...
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Subject: Re: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:22:44 -0500
From: Snarfblat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ian Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[
Here is the documentation for SUDO:
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
and a nice slideshow:
http://www.komar.org/komar/alek/pres/sudo/start.html
Darrell
Ian Phillips wrote:
>
> > You cannot duplicate root. You can, however, duplicate some of root's
> > functions using sudo. I've never personally do
>> You cannot duplicate root. You can, however, duplicate some of root's
>> functions using sudo. I've never personally done it, but I know it can
>> be done.
>
>Hmm, that disagrees with my story. But since I've been out of sysadmin work for about
>6 months now I may well be in the wrong. If so,
> You cannot duplicate root. You can, however, duplicate some of root's
> functions using sudo. I've never personally done it, but I know it can
> be done.
Hmm, that disagrees with my story. But since I've been out of sysadmin work for about
6 months now I may well be in the wrong. If so, so
Brian Sweeney wrote:
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> So, here's question: What is the difference between someone who's an
> "administrator" and the "root" or "superuser" in Linux?
Hooboy. That set of questions is a good one - and no, it hasn't been
covered for as long as I've been around.
The short form is: root cannot be
Hi Brian,
Basically, the terms "root" "superuser" "administrator" are all identical, you'll also
quite often see the term "priveledged user" quite a bit. root seems to be the most
common, and since this is also usually the actual user account name this makes sense.
The priveledged granted
>So, here's question: What is the difference between someone who's an
>"administrator" and the "root" or "superuser" in Linux? Is it because root
>can make system level calls or something? Basically, I would like to create
>a group of admins who can make users, configure Apache/WU-FTPD, and oth
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