Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:39:30 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Root user shells -revisited Message-ID: <E146rKs-000355-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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It has occurred to me that there is a danger in having "extra" users with uid 0 (this follows from a previous thread about root shells). I suspect some scripts and programs check for the user name "root" and not for id "0". Which could be a problem if you want to forbid root to run something .. just a thought (he says staring at a script he wrote some time ago that has this very flaw.. :( Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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