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It has the effect of making things very confusing, but there are situations where it can "make sense". For example, I support an environment where one customer can drop-off and pickup files via FTP or Kermit (over Telnet). Operational requirements are such that multiple accounts with different passwords be maintained, but as far as my system is concerned, all files are from the same customer. The "telnet" account is restricted to a BBS-style menu whereas the "FTP" account is chroot'd into another directory.

When you do an ls -l, the username associated with the first entry with the duplicate UID in /etc/passwd is displayed. Other than that, it's just the same user with two different ways of accessing the system.

To your original posting, however, it would make more sense for auditing purposes if all users "requiring root access" had a non-root account, then su'd to root either through sudo or by creating a specific group which all members belong to as well as the group on the su command. Then, limit execution of su to root (the owner) and, historically, wheel (the group).

Confusing, no?

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murmur-user-wrapper

murmur-user-wrapper(1)					      General Commands Manual					    murmur-user-wrapper(1)

NAME

       murmur-user-wrapper - User wrapper for murmurd.

SYNOPSIS

       murmur-user-wrapper [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Murmur  is the server component of Mumble, a low-latency, high quality VoIP application. Murmur-wrapper is a wrapper script to make it eas-
       ier for normal users to set up their own, private murmur server.

OPTIONS

       -d "directory"
	      Set directory to use. By default, the wrapper script uses $HOME/murmur

       -s     Check if murmur process is running.

       -k     Terminate running murmur process.

       -i     Initialize only, do not start the server.

       -p "password"
	      Specify password for the SuperUser account and exit. SuperUser is the mumble equivalent of root, a special user which  bypasses  all
	      access restrictions.

NOTES

       To create your own private server, you first want to run

	      murmur-user-wrapper -i

       Then  edit  ~/murmur/murmur.ini	to set the various configuration settings. The most important is probably the port; unless you're the only
       murmur process running on this server, you'll need to change it.

       When you're happy with your settings, you need to set the password for SuperUser, which is your administrator account.

	      murmur-user-wrapper -p <password>

       Once this is done, simply run

	      murmur-user-wrapper

       to start the server.

SEE ALSO

       murmurd(1).

AUTHOR

       mumble and murmurd was written by Thorvald Natvig <slicer@users.sourceforge.net>.

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