[vox-tech] User with root privileges

[Mark K. Kim]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, David Margolis wrote:

> "Tricking" the permission scheme by swapping UID's is gonna
> seem like it worked until some shell script calls root by name later and
> bombs (or something...I just think it will eventually break).

There's no swapping of UIDs.  It's *adding* a username to a UID.  It's a
common practice and it shouldn't break anything on a system.

-Mark

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