Re: Username "root" unique?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:22:37 -0500


In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811151724110.4772-100000@dawntreader.bu.edu>,
"Adam
D. Bradley" writes:
+-----
| Most sane utilities that care should be checking some variation on
| "getuid()==0" or "geteuid()==0", and the kernel couldn't care less about
| names, only UID's (and more recently, capabilities).
+--->8

Multiple uid-0 accounts are no problem; we have a number of systems set up
that way ("root" is for the administrators, "lroot" for the users who need
root --- adding exokernels to LILO, mainly).

There used to be some hassles porting software to Zilog boxes which called
their superusers "zeus", back when companies thought it would be neat to
call the superusers in *their* Unix-derived systems something else.

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system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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