duplicate root account

From: Toby Bluhm <tkb_at_mr.med.marconi.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:51:24 -0500

TruGurus,

What would be the implications of adding an account local to one machine
( /etc/passwd ) that has root's uid & gid, a root2 if you will?
I'm trying to get around a problem of samba's swat not allowing root
login and login as root2 works. I have root2 at the end of passwd just
before the NIS entry.
Nothing listed with ls is owned by root2, but a find for -user root2
will get hits on all root owned files. Neither one of these surprise me,
but I don't know much about the inner workings of uid related stuff and
what else may be affected.

Thanks

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Toby Bluhm
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440-483-5323
Received on Thu Nov 02 2000 - 19:45:35 NZDT

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