Jeff Vian wrote:
> Sorry Mitch, your interpretation of this is not correct.
> What you as the user see is root:root. What the system sees is uid:gid,
> which is, in the case of root 0:0. Chown for example looks
> at /etc/passwd to get the numeric values to assign.
Yes. But we were discussing changing that line in /etc/passwd (and
making other changes) so that that would no longer be true. And some
scripts (as Mitch pointed out) *do* explicitly use the root:root name.
I still don't think that it's a good idea.
James.
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