Claude Jones wrote:
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?
You may have as many user names associated with UID 0 as you like.
The home directories may be set independently as you like.
I would not "purge" UID 0, but I cannot think of how that would
conflict.
Mike
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