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From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Multiple Root ID's considered evil?
Message-ID: <1723@convex.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 23:37:01 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx.
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Some site are known to have multiple uid 0 accounts so not 
everyone needs to know the root password.  I seem to recall
that this is considered a poor idea for security reasons.
Could someone please explain why?

thanks,

--tom


    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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