On Wednesday 17 April 2002 13:16 pm, Philip S Tellis wrote: > Actually, having an alternate account with uid/gid 0 could be useful, > and improve security - if done correctly. > > Basically, any administrative tasks and only administrative tasks that > actually require root access should be done as this other user.
With apologies to Bill S., that which we call a root user by any other name would be just as powerful as full system administrator. The way to go is via sudo. The second user with 0/0 is risky. Don't do it. Just think if user admin, with 0/0 logs in, edits /etc/passwd and puts the admin line above the root line there. Then getpwd*() functions will return the admin line instead of the actual root line, and your logs won't show root logins/attempts at all. Binand _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
