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Whats wrong with just using sudo? Its much better for this stuff and it
logs. Maybe I miss the point.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander John Batyi <bud@buxcom.net>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Plug] root user
>
> > Just change the username of uid 0 with vipw.
>
> This does not create a user it changes the existing account.
> Not that it is a problem but I don't think it is what he asked.
>
> If you leave the highest account with UID 0 named root then all of your
> files look like the root user owns them when you use ls. If you add
> another root account with a different name then all the files created
> by either account show "root" ats the owner. If you change the name on
the
> "top" root account then the new name will be shown by ls for all files
> owned by UID 0.
>
>
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