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.
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Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
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