This may sound stupid, but I wonder if there is any difference between normal and administrator user accounts (created with the Unity Control Center) except the right to use sudo
to become root.
1 Answer
The big difference is in the amount of groups user belongs to. In addition to sudo
, admin account has access to the following
xieerqi:$ groups xieerqi
xieerqi : xieerqi adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
That's pretty much what that settings menu in xfce
does - adds an account to groups
By contrast , a regular user belongs only to his/her own group, unless otherwise changed by admin/root accounts.
xieerqi:$ groups tester
tester : tester
lp
,adm
, etc) will influence programs that respect those groups. This will allow limited increases in a user account's power.root
starts with ALL access enabled. They aren't "privileges". They're not even "capabilities". They're just/etc/group
.