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Authored by: maclaw on Jul 25, '02 11:29:07PM

there is more to the admin account than the ability to use sudo. it does, after all, add your username to the group "admin" as well. so if a file is owned by someowner:admin, with rw privileges for owner and group, but not for everyone, then an admin user could access this file while a non-admin user could not access this file (they would, by default, be a member of group "staff", not "admin"). if everyone was admin (i.e. there were no non-admin accounts) then this distinction would be eliminated even though it has nothing to do with the ability to obtain root privileges.

this type of grouping may be unimportant to some, but if you have certain data on the system that is appropriate for the privileged eyes of an admin, but not a regular user, then this is one example where it is important to distinguish between admin and non-admin accounts, not just between root and non-root.



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