[techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

Kelly Lynn Martin kelly at poverty.bloomington.in.us
Wed Apr 19 15:23:11 EST 2000


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:31:41 +0000, jenn at simegen.com said:

>The short form is: root cannot be denied /anything/. 

Well, not entirely.  UID 0 merely bypasses all permission checks, and
can execute certain privileged system calls.  Root still cannot do the
impossible. :)

Kelly





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