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From: connelly@deimos.cis.ksu.edu (Paul Connelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Multiple Root ID's considered evil?
Message-ID: <3459@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 89 19:35:51 GMT
References: <1723@convex.UUCP>
Reply-To: connelly@deimos.cis.ksu.edu (Paul Connelly)
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept of Computing & Information Sciences
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In article <1723@convex.UUCP> tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>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?
>
uid 0 is root for all intents and purposes.  Passing out multiple
uid 0 accounts defeats the purpose in not letting other people
know "root"'s passwd.