Hello,
I want this because there has been an increase in the number of
hackings with systems here.Root passwords are changed and administrators
are put in a piquant situation .So having another secret user will help me
Also ,how do I set a password to impede the entry of somebody by using
"linux single" ?
-Vasant
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, hypnos wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
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> > 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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