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methyl is on the correct track, IMO.

The file statement is correct, but individual user accounts are a subset of a group of files. Users change the program state of the kernel because they...

Indeed. Hopefully, not everything is a file under Unix. What is true is that many OS objects that aren't files on other operating systems, like devices (printers, disks, partitions, network...

When the URL is corrected it leads to this:
Everything is a File (http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~arik/usail/concepts/filesystems/everything-is-a-file.html)
Unfortuatetly the content is not correct. Don't...

ROFL classic!! :D

This assumption is wrong. What was the full quote in context?


You the user are just an configurable data item.

You are /dev/null.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-)

lol

You are lines in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/groups. These are the bare minimum for a user to login on a UNIX system normally. It's possible for root to force a login into arbitrary UID...