Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!lvc
From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Adding users (was: Workstations: good reasons for owner root access)
Message-ID: <947@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 88 16:10:01 GMT
References: <8338@smoke.ARPA> <2757@bgsuvax.UUCP> <183@ndc.UUCP> <25952@think.UUCP> <887@cbnews.ATT.COM> <1255@unisoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <1255@unisoft.UUCP> greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes:

>geez, you mean I can't add users to my own system without becoming root?

Well I don't know about *can't*, I'm talking more about *shouldn't have to*.
Why should any *clerical* task be delegated to root?  *Super* users have
better things to do than clerical tasks.  No I'm not knocking clerks!  I'll
take an excellent clerk over an average programmer anyday!

>Roan Anderson, Software Engineer, UniSoft Corporation, Emeryville, CA.
>My opinions are my own, but if you're real nice, I'll share...

No thanks :-)

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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM