---
name: "intro"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "man-pages"
version: "6.19-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux", "freebsd", "openbsd", "macos"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/intro/8"
---

# intro(8)

introduction to administration and privileged commands

## NAME

intro - introduction to administration and privileged commands

## DESCRIPTION

Section 8 of the manual describes commands which either can be or are used only by the superuser, like system-administration commands, daemons, and hardware-related commands.

As with the commands described in Section 1, the commands described in this section terminate with an exit status that indicates whether the command succeeded or failed. See [**intro**(1)](/intro/1.md) for more information.

## NOTES

### Authors and copyright conditions

Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page!