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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Multiple Root ID's considered evil?
Message-ID: <4157@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 15 Sep 89 02:47:59 GMT
References: <1723@convex.UUCP> <1989Sep13.082607.981@twwells.com> <1738@convex.UUCP>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <1738@convex.UUCP> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>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.

What's the diff?

				--Blair
				  "I hear a throng of voices,
				   all speaking those words,
				   voices that are not delayed
				   so much as the net propagation..."