12-05-2008
Generally speaking (this is not limited to AIX) every user with a user-id of 0 (zero) becomes a de-facto root user with a different login name and a different $HOME.
Still, as ravager already said, this arises several problems and is NOT recommended practice. I suggest you explain what you really want to achieve and probably there are other - better - ways to do this.
One problem for example is that several tools get their information from /etc/passwd and implicitly rely on this database being unambigous. "ls", for instance, is one of these tools: if you issue an "chown myadmuser file" for some root-equivalent user "myadmuser" with UID 0 and then do an "ls -l" you will see that the owner si displayed as "root" - simply, because "root" si the first entry to match UID 0 in /etc/passwd.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
logindevperm
logindevperm(4) File Formats logindevperm(4)
NAME
logindevperm, fbtab - login-based device permissions
SYNOPSIS
/etc/logindevperm
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/logindevperm file contains information that is used by login(1) and ttymon(1M) to change the owner, group, and permissions of
devices upon logging into or out of a console device. By default, this file contains lines for the keyboard, mouse, audio, and frame buffer
devices.
The owner of the devices listed in /etc/logindevperm is set to the owner of the console by login(1). The group of the devices is set to the
owner's group specified in /etc/passwd. The permissions are set as specified in /etc/logindevperm.
Fields are separated by TAB and/or SPACE characters. Blank lines and comments can appear anywhere in the file; comments start with a hash-
mark, ` # ', and continue to the end of the line.
The first field specifies the name of a console device (for example, /dev/console). The second field specifies the permissions to which the
devices in the device_list field (third field) will be set. These permissions must be expressed in octal format. For example, O774. A
device_list is a colon-separated list of device names. Note that a device name must be a /dev link. A device entry that is a directory
name and ends with "/*" specifies all entries in the directory (except "." and ".."). For example, "/dev/fbs/*" specifies all frame buffer
devices.
Once the devices are owned by the user, their permissions and ownership can be changed using chmod(1) and chown(1), as with any other user-
owned file.
Upon logout the owner and group of these devices will be reset by ttymon(1M) to owner root and root's group as specified in /etc/passwd
(typically other). The permissions are set as specified in the /etc/logindevperm file.
FILES
/etc/passwd File that contains user group information.
SEE ALSO
chmod(1), chown(1), login(1), ttymon(1M), passwd(4)
NOTES
/etc/logindevperm provides a superset of the functionality provided by /etc/fbtab in SunOS 4.x releases.
SunOS 5.10 22 Oct 2003 logindevperm(4)