Multiple Root ID's considered evil?
Blair P. Houghton
bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Fri Sep 15 12:47:59 AEST 1989
In article <1738 at convex.UUCP> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>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.
What's the diff?
--Blair
"I hear a throng of voices,
all speaking those words,
voices that are not delayed
so much as the net propagation..."
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