[TriLUG] Alternate root user

[Andrew Perrin]

I think you can just edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow by hand, duplicating
the root line. One guy I knew (no specifics, please) used "toor" for that
purpose.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Kevin Hunter wrote:

> 
> This web site
> 
> http://industrial-linux.org/ilg/security.html 
> 
> mentions creating an alternate root user and booby-trapping "root".
> Seems like a great idea, but everytime I try to create a user, either
> w/ uid 0, or later changing it to uid 0, it fails, saying not a
> unique uid.  I know how to do this in FreeBSD ( chfn, pwd_mkdb ), but
> I cannot find any details on how to do this in linux.  Do I have to
> change root's uid to something non-0 first??
> 
> KH
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