questions on user account

[David Curtis]

Zhengguo Xu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I had the impression that the user account created during the system 
> installation is sth. like "superuser" and its password like "super 
> password". so here come the questions
> 
> say i have user name XXX with password AAA created during ubuntu 
> installation, then i add a user YYY with password BBB and give it 
> administrator privilege. then I log in as YYY and delete the user XXX 
> (including all of its file and configuration) and only use YYY, is this 
> setting EXACTLY SAME as if i only have XXX (i mean for doing all the 
> system administration)?
> thanks

Off the top of my head I can't think of any reason why they would not be 
the same.

This pretty much explains how root(superuser) and root privledged 
users(sudo users) work in Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Dave