Aarune J. Oracle on Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:49:02 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] root user


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

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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
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:I agree. Sudo is great. I don't know why RedHat doesn't include it in their
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:mental@neverlight.com on 10/13/99 06:58:23 PM
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:Please respond to plug@lists.nothinbut.net
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:Whats wrong with just using sudo? Its much better for this stuff and it
:logs. Maybe I miss the point.
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:----- 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
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:> > Just change the username of uid 0 with vipw.
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:> 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.
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:> 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
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:> "top" root account then the new name will be shown by ls for all files
:> owned by UID 0.
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