Aarune J. Oracle on Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:49:02 -0400 (EDT) |
They included it in their powertools package, but that is as far as I can see. It is a nice things to have, makes it easy to control who does what. -- -Rune Time is Irrelevant to the worlds beyond this godforsaken place unto which it destroys all. -Aarune J. Oracle "In the depths of a mind insane fantasy and reality are the same" -Slayer. On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote: :Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:41:51 -0400 :From: tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com :Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net :To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net :Subject: Re: [Plug] root user : : : : : :I agree. Sudo is great. I don't know why RedHat doesn't include it in their :distro... : : : : :mental@neverlight.com on 10/13/99 06:58:23 PM : :Please respond to plug@lists.nothinbut.net : :To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net :cc: (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION) :Subject: Re: [Plug] root user : : : : :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. :> :> :> _______________________________________________ :> Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net :> http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug : :_______________________________________________ :Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net :http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug : : : : : : : : :_______________________________________________ :Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net :http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug : _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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