Re: create two users with same uid

From: Jed Clear (clear_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:38:44 GMT

mr_peter_stevenson@hotmail.com wrote:
> However, I'd like to know a bit more about the historical stuff behind
> the toor account, and why it exists.

So you can have a different login shell with root privileges.
Historically you did not want to mess with the shell assigned by default
to root, it would "break things"TM.

There was a recent discussion on shells for root in this group
recently. Although it had more to do with dynamic vs. static linked
shells.

-Jed

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