*sigh* :) this is for historical reasons. I've been fighting this particular issue now for about 7 years. In our case, it allows us to have a user who controls root on his box and allows us to have an account that has root level permissions to "assist in administration".
now, I realize this is not a normal config. there is even a handy dandy compliance check that says that I have two uid 0 accounts. however, this doesn't negate that there is an error in the compliance check :) On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Renaud Deraison (lists) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- Doug Nordwall Unix, Network, and Security Administrator You mean the vision is subject to low subscription rates?!!? - Scott Stone, on MMORPGs
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