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Gaccm
07-26-2001, 01:54 AM
I know this has come up before, but i cant seem to find it (since the find function seems to have stopped working), what i'm trying to do is make user 'toor' or whatever the superuser and make user 'root' an ordinary user that it continually logged.

Strike
07-26-2001, 03:14 AM
"root" is not the superuser in all cases (obviously). UID 0 is the superuser. Anyone with UID 0 is the superuser. You can edit /etc/passwd and make yourself the superuser :)