[TriLUG] Alternate root user

Geoff Purdy geoff.purdy at verizon.net
Tue Feb 26 15:59:27 EST 2002


> ...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.

editing /etc/passwd to change the uid field of an existing account to '0' 
works, although I don't know that this is the preferred method though...



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