🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <49fk7m$9p1@news.smart.net>,
Tom McKearney <tmckearn@smarty.smart.net> wrote:

>I wouldn't recommend this for most people, but you can go into the /etc/passwd
>file and find the entry that begins with mourip...
>
>something like 
>mourip:x:205:103:User Name:/home/mourip:/bin/ksh
>
>In this case you would want to replace 205 with 0.  0 is the User ID
>of root.  Effectively you would BE root, but the username would say mourip.
>This is kinda risky, because you will forget that you are root.  I recommend
>this ONLY for a short-term solution.  Be careful.

I wouldn't recommend this at ALL.  Some programs have "root"
hard coded into them, and will only run as "root",. no matter
what the UID/GID of the user are.  I know - badly written code -
but there is a lot of it out there, and I tried to do the same
thing, set my regular user id to have root priv's, and it
turrned out to be a terrible idea.

My suggestion is - if you don't want to always login as root,
use "su - root" or add yourself to the /etc/sudoers list, and
then sudo commands that need to be run as root.  I use sudo
quite a bit on my system, even though I've been told it is a
security hole.

-dave



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