On Thu December 1 2005 9:31 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > > Subject line says it all... > > Define "change a user's name". What is a user on a computer > with a different name? Isn't that a different user? > Are you asking whether other users may have the same privilege > as root? > The answer is "Yes". > Let me put it differently. Root's UID is 0 - suppose I change UID 0's User Login to 'doorknob' - first, can this be done? Second, would I have to create a new home directory called 'doorknob'? Third, are there any implications, doing this, for other software and/or settings in a Linux PC? Fourth - if this shouldn't be done, can a new user, say UID 15, be created with all the same privileges as root, and can root then be purged? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
