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Re: user problems, irc

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Wed Oct 30 13:10:24 1996

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:59:54 -0800
From: BORG <see_my_address@in_my.signature>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Dave wrote:
......
> In MetroX I added a new user 'dave' and gave 'dave' full system wide
> premissions. However it seems that 'dave' still cant do all the fun 'root'

Because all system files are owned by root and belong
to "root" group?

> commands and use scropts that are for 'root'.

Does user Dave have UID 0? what's an "official" view
to create another user with UID 0?

Regards,
Vlad

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