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- From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples)
- Subject: Re: Root User ID
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:32:44 GMT
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- albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:
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- >I have a program that checks for the "Root User ID" to make sure it isn't
- >zero. (Dunno why, but...) Anyway, in the standard SLS install, the root
- >user was assigned the ID of 0, daemon 1, etc.. etc... Is there any way
- >that I can reassign the user ID of root or maybe give it a different number
- >in /etc/passwd? Or do I have to change my software to allow the root as
- >ID 0.
- >
- >Thanks
- >
- >Albion
- > .
- >
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- By definition, the account with user ID zero is the super-user account.
- You can give that account any "login ID" you like, but if the user ID is zero
- then that will be the "root" account.
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