On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 6:21 AM, <berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: > Le 11.10.2013 23:06, Brian a écrit : >> >> "are you root?" > > > It does only means you own the system. Not that you can claim to be a > sysadmin. I own my car. I am not a mechanic, but I anyway have the > *authorizations* to tinker it. It's what root, or to be more precise, uid=0 > means in linux OSes.
In some countries, owning a car does not authorize you to tinker with it. Many who are the defacto admin for their system(s) do not claim to be a sysadmin. But they are still the only admin the system has. Sysadmin has multiple meanings, and possession of a piece of paper is, frankly, one of the less meaningful meanings I can think of. (I still plan to take the LPIC level 2 when I have some extra money.) But being able to install and update a debian box is part of what gets tested in the LPIC exams. If you can get a debian box up and a Fedora box up, if you can read a shell script and have some idea what's going on, if you can set apache up, if you can fiddle with your X server, that's most of a passing grade on the LPIC level 1, and then you can be a Jr. Sysadmin on paper. (Well, there are a few more things you want to get down, too. Permissions basics, basics of TCP-IP, SSH and such, but you generally pick those up while you're learning how to install the system and packages.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caar43ipdn8nu2rlm9up6yjurv_tmp4vwhkgsndxs1ezx_sr...@mail.gmail.com
