How to give administrative previledges

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 21:24:23 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:09, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> And some audit programs, like chkrootkit or cis benchmark, will 
> complain if they ever found two different system accounts with an UID = 
> 0. I don't think it's a good idea to ever set an account to UID = 0, 
> except root of course.

Unless, of course, it is on an old Sun box or a similar system that
gives root csh as the shell and will break if you change it.  In that
case you might want a sane alternative in the form of a different
login name.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com





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