[vox-tech] E-mail address in replies (was: User with root privileges

Mark K. Kim vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:41:18 -0800 (PST)


I'd appreciate it if people stopped quotting my e-mail address in their
replies.  Thanks.

-Mark


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Trevor Lango wrote:

> >"Mark K. Kim" <EMAIL_ADDRESS_BLOCKED> 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.

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