[SunHELP] second root account
Stefan Skoglund
sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Mar 30 13:31:16 CST 2001
Clayton Winter wrote:
>
> Taking the advice of Magnus to heart.
>
> How can you create a safe root account like toor?
>
> I thought no two accounts could have the same uid.
You can have multiple lines in the passwd database with the same uid
and different homedirs and/or different shells.
ONLY Make sure that uid 0 with name root is first in
the list !! If not well ls will show some amusing output and
well other sw could fail in unexpected ways !!!
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