begin quoting David Looney as of Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:35:41AM -0700: > Is there any way to set up login so that multiple username/password > pairs can be used to log into the same account (preferably from gdm) ?
% su - # cd /etc # vi passwd /username yyp cwnewuser^[ :wq # vi shadow /username yyp cwnewuser^[ :wq # passwd newuser newpassword # cg commit -m "Duplicated username." # exit % > The alternative seems to be to duplicate the same home directory/user > settings for each user, but this seems quite wasteful when your talking > many users. Accounts are tracked via UIDs. Usernames are mapped to UIDs. You can have multiple usernames map to the same UID. -- You can also share home directories. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
