On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 08:43, Sunil wrote:
> now that's why I had 'mechanism' in my original question...:)
> 
> few follow up questions: is it possible to create a role with name 'root'? If 
> yes, then when I say 'su -', will it use role 'root' or userid 'root' to 
> authenticate?
> 
> or am I stuck with having to say 'su - <root-role-name>'?

You can have either.

You can make root a role by adding this to the end of root's entry in
/etc/user_attr:  'type=role'.  DO NOT log out before you also
assign the role to a user otherwise it is a trip through single user
mode to fix it.

-- 
Darren J Moffat

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