Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Lin Taosheng <taosheng.lin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root" Message-ID: <19315.37670.468383.119569@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <5ffa459b1002102005i6b03c6fcqc1d4a11f590164d4@mail.gmail.com> References: <5ffa459b1002102005i6b03c6fcqc1d4a11f590164d4@mail.gmail.com>
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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? Respectfully, Robert Huff
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