How about just give him the same uid and gid? will that work? Ze
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: RE: alias > Problem with just having him in the same group is that group and owner > privileges are rarely identical so unless steps where always made to make > them identical this would not have the same result as an alias. So I take > it that there is no such animal as a user alias (other than for mail > purposes)? > > Larry S. Brown > Dimension Networks, Inc. > (727) 723-8388 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Canary > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: alias > > You would create a second user named coo with the same password as fred, > and assign coo to the fred group. > > Larry Brown wrote: > > > > Is it possible to create an alias for a user for login etc. Example would > > be a user named fred in the Linux system. I want to create an alias named > > coo for Fred. So fred could log in as coo with the password Fred would > > normally use and log in. He would look like the user coo but would have > all > > of the access rights and privileges of Fred. Then as a follow-up, if it > is > > possible, is it possible to do this for root? > > > > Larry S. Brown > > Dimension Networks, Inc. > > (727) 723-8388 > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
