On 3/25/06, "आशीष शुक्ला \"Wah Java !!\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I'm unable to use "su" program to logon to uid 0 account > because it says there is no user named "root". So, my question is, is it a bug > in "su" program that instead of looking for "root" it should check for user > name > of uid 0, or I'm wrong ? > No, it's not a bug. 'root' is just the username su looks for by default. Read the manpage.
You can have as many usernames with uid 0 as you like. Why you'd want many, I don't know. :o) However FreeBSD, for example, ships with two uid 0 users by default - root and toor. toor just has a bourne-again shell rather than plain sh; basically a 'utility' user so you can get an easier-to-use bash environment while leaving root with no-surprises (?) sh. The real user identifier on a Unix system is the uid. The username is just an alias for it, really, for us name-obsessed humans. Even where the superuser is concerned. Cian _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
