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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Multiple Root ID's considered evil?
Message-ID: <1738@convex.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 15:02:51 GMT
References: <1723@convex.UUCP> <1989Sep13.082607.981@twwells.com>
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In article <1989Sep13.082607.981@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>If done for the reason you suggest, that is an _awful_ idea! Root is
>root. Anyone who gets uid 0 is god. 

Certainly.  I perhaps misrepresented my reason.  The real reason was
to grant or remove superuser priv's to specific users without having 
to constantly muck with the One True Root Password.  I personally
don't do it that way at my site, preferring people to log in as 
themselves and su.

--tom


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