[techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

Hello all- I am new to this mailing list, so I apologize if these questions have been covered before. If they have, please point me in the direction of the archive that features them (I checked them first, but couldn't find them myself) and I'll look there. That being said, here's the deal. I'

Re: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

>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

RE: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

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

Re: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

Brian Sweeney wrote: > > 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

RE: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

> 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

RE: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

>> 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,

Re: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

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

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I will learn how to reply... I will learn how to reply... Original Message 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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ian

Re: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

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

Re: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

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

[techtalk] re: PHP

Does anyone remember the address for learning book on PHP3... finally got around to wanting to look into it... and it's lost in my email somewhere... Help?! -Lone -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/J d-- s: a20? C+++() L+++ P+++() e N o+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y PGP++ t+ 5-

Re: [techtalk] re: PHP

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 02:42:10PM -0700, Allen Heinecke wrote: > Does anyone remember the address for learning book on PHP3... finally got > around to wanting to look into it... and it's lost in my email > somewhere... I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but... http://www.php.net/bo

RE: [techtalk] re: PHP

Julie's site is: http://www.thickbook.com/ Cheers! Lynette Quinn Prima Tech -Original Message- From: Erin Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [techtalk] re: PHP On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 02:42:10PM -0700, Allen Hein

Re: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

Hmmm... What is the difference between ROOT and GOD? . . . God has mercy. Thanks, CatNTHat -Original Message- 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, admin

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