Doug,

Actually, Renaud brings up a great point, the configuration in question is 
definitely not compliant and goes against good security practices.. 
I'll defer to Renaud...

Renaud Deraison (lists) wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Doug Nordwall wrote:
> 
>> so, we have boxes (many) with 2 UID 0 accounts.
> 
> Stop right here. This goes against every Unix administrative best  
> practices playbook which clearly says that each user should have its  
> own UID. Why do you have such a setup ?
> 
> 
>                               -- Renaud
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Paul Davis
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Tenable Network Security Inc
Phone: 410.872.0555
www.tenablesecurity.com

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