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.TH INTRO 8 "2 February 1997" GNO "System Administration"
.SH NAME
intro \- introduction to system administration
.SH DESCRIPTION
The commands described in this chapter are intended only for system
administration tasks.  On traditional Unix systems, use of these 
routines are typically restricted to the superuser (root).
.LP
System administration commands are usually kept in either
.BR /sbin ,
.BR /usr/sbin ,
or 
.BR /etc .
Because of the lack of user file permissions under GNO, it is often 
possible for non-privaledged users to execute these commands.  Therefore,
in the interest of system integrity, these directories should not be in the 
.BR PATH
of any user other than the superuser.
.LP
The manual page syntax of this chapter conforms to that of Chapter 1,
.IR "Commands and Applications" .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR intro (1)