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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 04:16:10 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I have just installed FreeBSD on a second machine, but I notice the
> following anomoly:
> 
> On my new machine, user "toor" has the UID of 0 which the same UID as
> user "root" and everything seems to work OK.
> 
> On my old machine user toor has the uid of 4 and if I change it to 0
> via the command "chpass", user "root" soon disapears.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Do a "vipw" and transpose the first two lines.

> Wilton Hughes                   520-776-8272
> 3682 Estate Drive
> Prescott, Arizona 86303-7523
> unixsa@northlink.com

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
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