Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:23:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Lin Taosheng <taosheng.lin@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root" Message-ID: <874olocpmc.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <19315.37670.468383.119569@jerusalem.litteratus.org> (Robert Huff's message of "Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500") References: <5ffa459b1002102005i6b03c6fcqc1d4a11f590164d4@mail.gmail.com> <19315.37670.468383.119569@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: >Lin Taosheng writes: >> Is that possible to implementated? > > For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, > but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0. You can, > create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but it's usually a Very Bad > Idea. > > As far as I know, there's no reason you can't rename the "root" > account and have a non UID 0 account with that name. On the other > hand, if you're asking this question there may be a better way to > accomplish your objective: would you care to share? The kernel doesn't really care what your user *name* is. See for example the 'toor user in '/etc/master.passwd'.
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