What microsoft has to say about XP

[Paul Howarth]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:05 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
>>Spot on.
>>Renaming 'root' is full of pitfalls.
>>Software commonly installs files symbolically root:root not 0:0.
>>Scripts...
>>    /etc/init.d/identd:       chown root:root /etc/identd.key
>>Dozens and dozens of places.....  
>>
> 
> Sorry Mitch, your interpretation of this is not correct.

If root isn't UID 0 in /etc/passwd (or wherever the user data is held), 
how is Mitch's example of "chown root:root /etc/identd.key" going to work?

Answer: it isn't. Error message "no such user".

Paul.