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I always thought that the root group had close to the same privileges as the root account itself. If one have to assign the group root to files to have access to them the group is pretty useless....

Well, I guess that that means "no particular risk"?

Same version and same rights. The question is/was meant to be more fundamental as in, is it really a good thing to let root point to anything in /usr? By default, I mean. My understanding always was...

Can anybody tell me if there is a security issue with root using/pointing to /usr, like for example /usr/bin/ksh? Why not point to /bin/ksh instead?
Any risk involved doing that?
Thanks
Norgaard

Hi,
I have a passwd file with 3 users belonging to the the root group (gid=0), but the group file does not list these users as members of the root group?
Shoud I be worried and apart from...

OK, thx. Then I am not as mad as I feared!

I can't run the script, because I don't have access to unix/linux at work. The first 3 columns are "root, encrypted pwd, 6445". The 6445 is to my understanding the days counting from 1/1/1970, i.e....

Hi,
I am doing an audit and thought I knew what I was doing, but reading through the posts I came into doubt.
On Sun Solaris, I want to know when users last changed their passwords. I have the...