Re: Linux Security: What it is ?

Well you can add a user root with a different uid. Try su-ing then.
Let the lab admin use the root account :)


Sharad Birmiwal

On 3/26/06, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]> wrote:
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> "???? ?????? \"Wah Java !!\"" on Sunday 26 Mar 2006 09:40 wrote:
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> > As its doc says, "If no USER is given, the default is 'root', the
> > super-user.", it seems that author's aim of su program when no USER is
> > provided is to become super-user, but he has assumed that super-user was
> > always 'root'. Won't you consider it a bad programming practise.
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> No, because that's the standard convention used across most unix flavors.
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> Ritesh
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