Enightening sought: User-ID, Owner & Permission

[David Fox]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:34 AM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux
<i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
> If not mistaken:
> The first user enlisted with the installation / setup shall have some
> special privileges !?

Not exactly. Of course you have to be root to do an install, but
that's sort of a given, and that happens before the real users are
added. Ubuntu lacks a root account (it's there, but kind of hidden) so
you sudo from a user account to get stuff done that needs root
privileges. There really isn't the concept of a separate administrator
account like in XP that's separate from, or in addition to root-
either you have root's privileges or you don't, at least with default
setups. You could get a little more fine-grained control by listing
various tasks that people can do or not in sudoers, but it's not set
up that way by default.


> his system w/single user: User-ID: his / User name: man
> her system w/single user: User-ID: her / User name; woman

Man could do somethings that woman could not (hope that doesn't sound
sexist :) but not unless it is set up that way, both users would have
equal access rights, unless some action is taken to prevent that.

> Cheers, svobi