From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 7:34:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45ADE37B400 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 07:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g0RFTkF24588 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:29:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C541EE7.1060500@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:38:15 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Two users with the same UID? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Very simple question. I know it's possible, but are there any pitfalls to doing this? Basically, I want to create an "admin" user that is also UID 0 but has different home directory, shell, etc properties. Simply for ease of use for folks who are used to other OSes. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message