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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:23:23 +0200
In-Reply-To: <19315.37670.468383.119569@jerusalem.litteratus.org> (Robert
	Huff's message of "Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500")
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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"
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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'.