On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:34:38AM -0700, darkuncle@darkuncle.net said: [snip]
This is a really /really/ REALLY bad idea. I had nightmare issues dealing with a network formerly run by a 'sysadmin' who thought every user that might need to do something as root should have a uidzero account.
That's not the issue, however.
The assumption is that you have several people who really are fully qualified admins on the system in question, who really do need full privileged access. The choice John describes is between giving these trusted sysadmins the password for "root", or giving them (and them alone) a UID 0 account as he describes (except that one would of course use shadow passwords etc.)
Wrong. The choice is between having a single password for the user with id 0, and having multiple passwords for that same account. This is an abysmally bad idea, and shame on anybody encouraging it. See
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