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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
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I did not set up the user root, I gave the normal user superuser-permission during set up
Since you mention setup instead of any manual install screwery, I’d say root(uid 0) is still very real, you just didn’t setup any login for it. Every time you
sudo
(substitute-user-do), you(probably uid 1000) are running that command as root instead of you. In fact, justsudo -i
and you are now “logged in” as root.Edit: Missed the context. Should still be useful info but you probably are not accidentally remoting into an account you never setup the login for.