On 11/13/06, jason watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
also, if root is deleted or disabled, dont you loose part of the
functionality of su ... the part where you just type su - and you are now
root, provideing you know the pw?
No, because what su - does is not switch to the user named "root"
but rather changes your effective user id to 0. The user with id
0 is, in effect, root, no matter what it is called.
ok, so i disable root, and then run a su - command, then it will ask me for
a password? what will it use?
not trying to argue or be combative, just trying to learn, and understand
better
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