On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser
> password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users
> are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root
> accounts. In /etc/passwd this looks like
>
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> superdanny:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>
> The problem is the following: some day Danny wants to change his
> `superdanny' passwd and he types:
>
> $ su superdanny
> Password:<his passwd>
> # passwd
>
> Then two things happen that I don't like:
> 1) He isn't asked for the old password,
> 2) the password of root is changed, not that of superdanny
>
> Now I wonder: once logged in as `superdanny', is there a way for the
> system to know that, despite uid being 0, this is superdanny, and not
> root; and if there is a way, would the two points above classify as bugs?
>
I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID
is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or
`whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway..
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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