> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:14:26 -0500 > From: Derick Centeno <[email protected]> > > Just to be explicit, any one Linux computer owned by an individual has > one and only one root account. If however there is a family or group > sharing the computer then there can be multiple user accounts each with > a user password, but still there is only one root.
Actually, any account with uid 0 will have root privileges regardless of username, and you can have as many of them as you want (although many consider it a bad idea to have multiple root accounts). In some unix systems (e.g., BSD, I think), there is a standard second root account with username "toor" (root spelled backwards). This can be handy if you want to use a root account with a non-standard default shell that doesn't reside in the root filesystem but leave another with a standard shell for use in single user mode or emergencies. Long ago (in simpler times) I once had an account on a shared system (a research machine at a university) on which *all* users were given uid 0! Ray _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
