On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:56:43PM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Bart Smaalders wrote: > >How will we insure that there are real administrative users present > >in the password file? > Are you asserting that installation must create a administrative user > (as with Ubuntu, Debian, others) or something else? If its "something > else", > could you elaborate? > > If an administrative user deletes all administrative users from the passwd > file,... well those are the breaks. He got exactly what he wanted. :-)
IIRC sulogin simply execs a root shell if /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are missing/damaged. Presumably this would still be true (or false, if it is false).
