From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jorge R . Csapo" Subject: Re: Fake Root User? Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:04:40 -0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030828190440.A10620@completo.com.br> References: <200308281754.09139.1stflight@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308281754.09139.1stflight@ameritech.net>; from 1stflight@ameritech.net on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:54:09PM -0400 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Darryl On Linux <1stflight@ameritech.net> Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Jorge R. Csapo -------------------------------------------------- /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -------------------------------------------------- http://www.completo.com.br/~jorge =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster