Multiple Root ID's considered evil?

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <1989Sep13.082607.981 at twwells.com> bill at twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>If done for the reason you suggest, that is an _awful_ idea! Root is
>root. Anyone who gets uid 0 is god. 

Certainly.  I perhaps misrepresented my reason.  The real reason was
to grant or remove superuser priv's to specific users without having 
to constantly muck with the One True Root Password.  I personally
don't do it that way at my site, preferring people to log in as 
themselves and su.

--tom


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