On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > > Of course you can! Just edit /etc/passwd file. > > > > No you can't. The reason is simple. > > On any Unix system, the first username that is assigned to the system is > 'root'. On any Unix installation, you first setup root, and then add > other users to the system.
Why don't you just try it? Unix systems have no concept of user names as such. All functions work with UID. It id UID "0" (zero) that has a special meaning in Unix, not username root. It is job of the shell to translate UIDs to usernames (and back). For example, you can create a new user, and change the username (but not the UID) in /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow files. The system will then know the UID as the new username... You can do the same thing with user "root". Just keep the UID as zero, and change the username. You can also create a new user, and change the UID to zero (in /etc/passwd file), and the new user will have "root" privileges. Hossein _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
