OT: Re: [TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

[jason watts]

>On 11/14/06, Aaron S. Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
>>Philip and Jason's understanding is correct, Tanner's assertion that su
>>is changing to UID 0 by default is incorrect.  The obvious reasons being
>>two fold, first off su uses PAM, and the PAM module pam_unix requires a
>>username to know which password to validate against.  More simply
>>though, even if you didn't use pam, it's still got to know which entry
>>in /etc/{passwd,shadow} to look at, as there can be more than one UID 0
>>(also as previously discussed).

sorry for jacking my own thread...
the above mentioned i never recieved in email... all i saw was that tanner 
responded to it.
is my email blocking it? or something else

again, sorry for jacking my own thread :p
jsn

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