On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:42, you wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:02, Carlos Ordonez wrote: > > Vince, I guess my question is, if I have 50 linux images running under VM > > and each of them have a root user, can I have a different password for > > each of them? Carlos :-) > > You don't have to call your uid 0 root either btw. Unix cares about uid > and cap bits not about the name. The name is a userspace construct > purely for human convenience. So you can have > > bofh:*:0:... etc for your root
However, don't suppose that not having a root account called root is something you would want to do. Just a couple of hours ago I was looking at a Debian script that asumes "id -u -n" returns root for UID=0. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
