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Article #7232Re: Programs knowing "root"
From: Joe Ilacqua
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 16:27
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 16:27
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In article <619@ssc-bee.UUCP> bossert@ssc-bee.UUCP (John Bossert) writes: >Can someone supply me with a list of programs depending on the user >with uid==0 having the name "root"? Specifically, I'd like to know >what would break if I renamed "root" to "mother", for example. I'm >primarily concerned with 4.[23] BSD, but the System V information would >be valuable too. This is not major but: Rsend can not write to some with a UID of 0 if the name is not root. (This is because part of the check to see if the terminal is in use is to see if it is owned by root) -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. | |UUCP: ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!ilacqua | |ARPANET: ilacqua@bucsb.bu.edu | |CSNET: ilacqua%bucsb@bu-cs BITNET: engemnc@bostonu | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!nike!sri-spam!rutgers!husc6!bu-cs!bucsb.bu.edu!ilacqua From: ilacqua@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Joe Ilacqua) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Programs knowing "root" Message-ID: <524@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 12:27:46 EDT Article-I.D.: bucsb.524 Posted: Wed Oct 1 12:27:46 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Oct-86 06:57:38 EDT References: <619@ssc-bee.UUCP> Reply-To: ilacqua@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Joseph Ilacqua) Distribution: na Organization: Society of Evil Engineers Lines: 20