begin quoting David Brown as of Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:33:07PM -0700: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:56:35PM -0700, David Looney wrote: > > >Giving different users a single account (i.e. the same UID/GID and home > >directory) as suggested by SJS is probably better (and easy to script). > >I never realized you could do that without causing problems. > > Not certain you can do it without problems. I suspect most things > would work, but wouldn't be surprised to run into an occasional > program that gets confused.
Suprisingly little has broken over the years. I can imagine some malformed software choking, but nothing important should break. > You'll probably also find that most things think the logged in user is > the first on in the passwd file. Yup, 'cuz UID->name mappings can't tell which account you're talking about. If this is a problem, then have the first account be a no-login account for "Group Account X" or somesuch. -- Not that it's a good idea to do this sort of thing on a regular basis. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
