Privacy, again 2384
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Yep. He's missing the real point too: it isn't his files that he needs to be concerned with, it's the network connections...
Moikel
Most likely.
The easiest (but least safe) way to give "adminstrators" the power to perform their tasks is to give them aliases to the root user (UID 0). By convention, the root user (UID 0) is given the name "root", but this is not a requirement, and UID 0couldhave any name.
There are other ways to give administrators powers, ranging from giving them full access to the root user logon ("su") to giving them limited powers based on their own userid and groupid ("sudo").
OK. I tried :-)
Yes. But thatdoesn'tmean that no-one logged in has "root" powers. It just means that they haven't logged in using the name "root".
Not easily. They might be able to recover those files from where-ever they back them up to (making backups is one of the typical tasks that an administrator performs). With much luck and a fair amount of system down-time, they may even be able to recover deleted files from the system itself.
Once they recover the file, they have access to it's contents.
You're welcome
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