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Root 101 - Concept of Root for Newbies
Fozz writes "One of my colleagues wrote this article explaining the concept of root/super user for Unix newbies. He wrote it after looking for information like it and not finding much. His analogy of Unix and an apartment complex is one of the best metaphors I've seen for understanding multi-user OSes." If you're running any variety of Unix, you've probably been forced to learn this pretty well already, but this is a very lucid explanation to point out to curious friends / co-workers who aren't so sure.
...but at my shop, everyone enters the building using the concierge's key (administrator), a copy of which is conveniently taped to the front door. (Post-It [TM] to the monitor). We have not, however, gone so far as to include the password in our Telnet greeting -- you'll have to sniff for that yourself.
Um, yeah. Hey! NTFS has default journaling and no 15-minute filesystem checks!
Proudly serving Satan since ought-two.
Slashdot: news for clueless newbies. Stuff that makes you think you're a l33t ninja hacker.
Next we can try more difficult tasks, like explaining command mode in vi.
-Sean
What makes us more advanced then cave men is language. Try explaining how to do something by pointing and grunting and you will see what I mean. For somethings like moving a rock from one place to another that might be sufficient and probably even easier but telling someone how to build a cart out of 2 wheels would be imposible with out language.
You've obviously never managed a McDonalds.
--R