Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, but the User II. Root is special because it has

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another username that is UID zero. The name toor is actually already there as an example of how to do that, but it is disabled because

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another username that is UID zero. The name toor is actually

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:04:00 +, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@black-earth.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/11/10, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another

HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-10 Thread Lin Taosheng
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HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, but the User II. Root is special because it has UID 0. You can, create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but it's usually a Very Bad Idea. As far as I know,

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, but the User II. Root is special because it has UID 0. You can, create other accounts with UIS