Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
> I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID > is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or > `whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway.. I used it under Solaris, and it was quite a Good Thing. The root account was reserved for

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser > > password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users > > are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root > >

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser > password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users > are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root > accounts. In /etc

passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi everyone, I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root accounts. In /etc/passwd this looks like root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash sup