[vox-tech] User with root privileges

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Thu 20 Nov 03,  3:53 PM, Trevor Lango <tmlango@sbcglobal.net> said:
>    >"Mark K. Kim" <markslist@cbreak.org> wrote:
>    > 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.
>
>    On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they
>    will have full privileges.
     
that's not quite accurate.  UID != GID.

pete

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