Alexander John Batyi on Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:38:04 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] root user


> It's not just the security aspects; it's doing something that will cause
> you to corrupt something - the OS, an app, a hard drive, whatever. 
> 
> Thinking that using root involves only a security danger, and not a danger
> that you could inadvertently foobar your whole system, is dangerous in
> itself.

That is all true of course but the guys question was how do you give a
user root permission with a user name other than root.  Sounds pretty
cut and dried to me.


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