Foreword
Twenty-seven years ago, in 1983, I wrote what may have been the first system administrator’s guide for the UNIX operating system. I’d been hired as a contractor to write documentation at a UNIX workstation company called Massachusetts Computer Company (MASSCOMP for short). When I finished the graphics programming manuals I’d been hired to write, I was casting around for something else to do there. “When any of us have system problems, we go to Tom Teixeira,” I said. “What are our customers going to do?”
The answer was quick: “Uh, oh! We really need a manual.” I was soon rehired to extract as much information as I could from Tom Teixeira’s head and put it onto paper.
That book covered the basics: the root account, account addition, permission ...
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