Re: [p4] p4v browse showing root user

Posted on behalf of forum user 'kashmir'.



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Sambwise, on 2018/02/12 16:55:15 UTC, said:
>    1) The user "root" showing up in "p4 users" isn't related to how you started p4d, because p4d doesn't (shouldn't?) create a user.  Complete red herring.  That user was most likely created at some point in the past by a client connection that someone ran from their own "root" account, since P4USER defaults to the current system login.  If you happened to notice the user's Email field before you deleted it that'd probably give you a clue as to who did it, since the default email is user@host (so you'd see root@host for whatever host was the culprit).
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>   2) A user called "root" has no special powers or permissions in Perforce unless you grant them those permissions via "p4 protect".  Since you've set autocreate to 2, users will not be able to do this in the future; only a superuser (which presumably you have locked down via protections and passwords) is allowed to create new users now.
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>   If you have not set up a protection table yet by running "p4 protect", of course, the door is wide open for anyone to do anything.
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That cleared a lot of stuff up for me, thank you so much i was starting to lose
my mind to be honest!



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