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Operating Systems HP-UX Problems creating and accessing with user Post 303002038 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 16th of August 2017 02:35:15 PM
Old 08-16-2017
There is UID 0 for root.
By adding a second UID 0 user you make it an alias for root.
Still it logs in with its separate password.
I don't know why the login fails. Look at error messages in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
How do you login? With ssh? Then, perhaps there is "PermitRootLogin no" in sshd_config, and sshd treats all UID 0 users accordingly.

Once logged in as the alias user, a "whoami" will say "root". Some odd things can happen.
So userdel fails because it sees that "root" has running processes.

Adding a second UID 0 account is no good practice.
A better way is sudo and an appropriate entry in sudoers file.
Code:
man sudo
man sudoers

 

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PAM_ROOTOK(8)							 Linux-PAM Manual						     PAM_ROOTOK(8)

NAME
pam_rootok - Gain only root access SYNOPSIS
pam_rootok.so [debug] DESCRIPTION
pam_rootok is a PAM module that authenticates the user if their UID is 0. Applications that are created setuid-root generally retain the UID of the user but run with the authority of an enhanced effective-UID. It is the real UID that is checked. OPTIONS
debug Print debug information. MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
The auth, acct and password module types are provided. RETURN VALUES
PAM_SUCCESS The UID is 0. PAM_AUTH_ERR The UID is not 0. EXAMPLES
In the case of the su(1) application the historical usage is to permit the superuser to adopt the identity of a lesser user without the use of a password. To obtain this behavior with PAM the following pair of lines are needed for the corresponding entry in the /etc/pam.d/su configuration file: # su authentication. Root is granted access by default. auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth required pam_unix.so SEE ALSO
su(1), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7) AUTHOR
pam_rootok was written by Andrew G. Morgan, <morgan@kernel.org>. Linux-PAM Manual 06/04/2011 PAM_ROOTOK(8)
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