> Forwarded message from debian-devel to file as a bug report: > > > Hi... > > > > I'd rather open this for discussion that a bug report, but I'd like to > > have multiple root accounts (ie: root, root2, root3 etc) on one system - > > however it buggers adduser up when adding a normal user. > > > > I've tried making 5 root accounts all with UID/GID 0:0, and when I run > > adduser it tries to allocate UID 1000 (which is already taken my my > > normal account) and write that username before mine with UID 1000 in > > the passwd file. If I take the additional root accounts out then there is > > no problem with adduser. > > > > Is there a way around this?
Not really much in the way of a fix, but is there a reason that you can't use sudo or super to acomplish what you want multiple root accounts for? Having multiple accounts with the same UID is a good way to confuse a lot of different things.
