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From: "Jorge R . Csapo" <jorge@completo.com.br>
To: Darryl On Linux <1stflight@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fake Root User?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:04:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030828190440.A10620@completo.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308281754.09139.1stflight@ameritech.net>; from 1stflight@ameritech.net on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:54:09PM -0400

What do you mean fake root? An account called root without being
root or an account with a different name that is indeed root?

Anyway, root is whoever gets its UID to be 0 (zero). Create a user
with UID=0 and s/he can do wharever root can. Create a user called
root with UID <> 0 and s/he will not be root, despite the name.

HTH

assim falou Darryl On Linux (em 28/08/2003):
> 	 Is it possible to create a fake root user account? 
> 
> 								Darryl
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-28 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-28 21:54 Fake Root User? Darryl On Linux
2003-08-28 22:04 ` Jorge R . Csapo [this message]

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