First user philosophy

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Wed Aug 10 04:04:21 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:57:49PM -0400, Charles M Howe wrote:
> I have been saying to myself that basically the first user is root. But
> I expect that that isn't really true. Where can I find a discussion of
> this topic?

The first user on a system *is* root. The root user has UID
0 (zero). Then the system typically creates a regular
(non-root) user, and in Ubuntu's case makes that regular
user a member of the 'sudoers' group, which means that user
can run commands as root by typing

sudo [commandName]

So you're right. Well done. :-)

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