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What is the difference between adm and root?
I have files owned by root and group root.
Furthermore, I have files owned by root and group adm (or vice versa...).
What is the difference and how should I approach this when issues of ownership may present themselves?
root is the super user on Linux or Unix systems and can basically do anything on the system. The admin group on Ubuntu is a group consisting of non root users who are allowed root privileges using sudo. I am not sure how the group and file ownership will affect you because this depends on the files.
Just needed that push in the right direction to sort out how to think in the world of Linux.
The picture of how this works is a lot clearer now, and getting more so every step I take
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