On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:48:09PM -0700, Kevin Reed wrote:
| Hope I can explain this right...
|
| Example of the problem.
| adminr Remote users account with UID=0
Two accounts with the same UID.
This doesn't work very well. If you have the UID and reverse-lookup
to see who the user is, the first one listed in /etc/passwd is the
textual name you'll see. If you start with the name and convert to
UID they are both equal.
I know this because I tried it once. I have one name on a laptop and
a different one on the school system. I can mount my home directory
via samba. I was doing cvs commits like that, and, oops, my local
username was in the log instead of my school username. I tried to
make a duplicate user with the right name, and ran into that problem.
sudo didn't work for me ( "dman" is uid 1000 is user dsh8290,
dsh8290 is not allowed to run that command ).
-D
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Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31
