Linux Distros Linux

Users

Root

root is the name of the system administrator account. Root has user id 0 and nominally unlimited privileges.

Exceptions: In modern UNIX systems, SELinux or Apple’s SIP (aka rootless system), even root is limited in what it can do.

NOTE: For the rest, read this answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/291467

Groups

File System Heirarchy

/

/boot

/boot/efi

/home

/bin

/sbin

/lib

/proc

Process information virtual file system

/dev

System devices virtual files /dev/ram - Ramdisk device /dev/tty /dev/null /dev/zero /dev/initrd - Bootloader initialized ramdisk /dev/loop /dev/mouse /dev/random /dev/rtc etc.

/sys

/swap

/root

/usr

/usr/share
/usr/bin
/usr/lib
/usr/include
/usr/local
/usr/src

/opt

Manually installed binaries

/var

/run

/media

/mnt

/srv

/tmp