Multiple Root ID's considered evil?

Tom Christiansen tchrist at convex.com
Tue Sep 12 09:37:01 AEST 1989


Some site are known to have multiple uid 0 accounts so not 
everyone needs to know the root password.  I seem to recall
that this is considered a poor idea for security reasons.
Could someone please explain why?

thanks,

--tom


    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist at convex.COM
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