On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> I'm not certain that I understand your question ... but if I do understand
> it, the answer is that you don't. "all root permissions" comes from being
> the user with userid 0. Only one such user can exist on a system (userids
> must be unique), and that user is (by definition) root -- though the account
> can have a different username.
UIDs do not have to be unique. You can have multiple
user with [u/g]id's of 0, though why you would want
to is past me. I only have one user with UID 0, and
I never use that one :)
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