On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote:
> :-) I agree that it is messy. That's the "reducation" (I meant > "reduction") I was talking about.... things that map uids to usernames. > They get confused. Anything that tests for a username of 'root' is broken > already! That reverse mapping is happening everywhere in Linux. Should we take "useradd" being unwilling to do so as an omen? Sure, it's just text so hand-edit the passwd and shadow files (yes, we can). So do we conclude that using multiple accounts with UID 0 is not a good idea and certainly does not achieve what you wanted? On the subject of UID: security gets a lot easier when you can have unique name and UID across all your servers (that's where a central LDAP helps a lot). PS If you really want, you could look into MultiAdmin to do what you tried.No idea how mature that is. Rob - amateur security weeny ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
