Root 101 - Concept of Root for Newbies

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 27, 2003 @05:22AM from the to-bookmark-for-friends dept.

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.

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missing this story on the main slashdot page? by aagren · 2003-02-27 08:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why hasn't this story been on the front page? I only found it through slashdot.rdf
1. Re:missing this story on the main slashdot page? by aagren · 2003-02-27 08:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Just ignore me. Didn't know about developers.slashdot.org until 5 minutes ago.