2008/12/1 Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Juan Miscaro wrote: > ... >> >> Why not set up a user (ex: bigguy) and then force his uid and gid to >> be 0 and 0 with vipw? Give that user a nice coloured bash prompt and >> set up directories in his home. This way you get a customized >> superuser while keeping the real root environment pristine. > > Other than generating duplicate user number error reports from the nightly > security check, the generally bad idea of duplicate user numbers, creating > confusion and ambiguity that doesn't need to be there, the likelihood that > you will have forgot the 'root' password when you need it and being a really > silly way to solve a completely non-problem? No reason at all.
I turn off those annoying checks and I use the same password. Works great. /juan
