Enightening sought: User-ID, Owner & Permission

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:21 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> 
> > You are right, the first user does have special privileges, as it
> > becomes the root user. 
> 
> Strictly speaking, the first user created by an Ubuntu install does _not_
> get special privileges.  The group "admin" gets sudo privilege, and the
> first user is added to the group, so to change the administrator, you just
> add the new one to the admin group, and remove the old one (preferably
> _from_ the new user, so that you know it's working!)
> 
> -- 
> derek
> 
Thank you

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