I would like to make a comment here. It's off the topic though.
Although I'm just another user of the forum, not a moderator/admin, I would request posters not to be harsh as not all of the people who post here have English as their first language. Please be patient. Thanks.
It is not a recommended practice but yes, multiple users can share the same userid. You can have multiple entries with the same user id, but different home directories, gecos, shells and password. However, technically, they would be the same user for the kernel and for all commands.
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Can we give root permissions to normal user like admin.s ? If YES give me full details (syntax of sudo/RBAC)
sudo is not part of Solaris 10 and older. Should you want to give a user full root permissions, grant him/her the primary administrator profile.
@admin_xor- the policy here is definitely one of do not be rude. However I suspect that ESL (English as a second language) holds for all of the posters in this thread. This means that people who behave brusquely by someone else's standards may be called on it.
There is a strong cultural component to behavior and the perception of behavior. Which, IMO, is good thing as long as it doesn't create flame wars. We cannot enforce "internet manners" - what Juan B was complaining about.
FWIW, posters who are abusive are tracked, warned, and if necessary, banned. Nothing I see in the thread warrants anything even remotely like that on the part of anyone here.
Keep up the good work, everyone.
And. Multiple human users with the same uid is a horrible idea. It is a problem waiting to happen. My perception is that the OP should use a group approach like the rest of us all do. Most application software makes implicit assumptions about the uniqueness of the uid.
When that assumption is violated really bad things can happen. And if there is an application that mandates a common uid, each user should be able to become a single special username to accomodate the app. Not the other way around.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 05-12-2012 at 10:02 PM..
It is not a recommended practice but yes, multiple users can share the same userid. You can have multiple entries with the same user id, but different home directories, gecos, shells and password. However, technically, they would be the same user for the kernel of for all commands.
sudo is not part of Solaris 10 and older. Should you want to give a user full root permissions, grant him/her the primary administrator profile.
If you are going to use RBAC, remember to use a privilege shell like pfsh, pfcsh or pfksh... otherwise you won't be able to use the auths / profiles
or simply prefix the command by pfexec, which makes it similar to sudo.
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
And. Multiple human users with the same uid is a horrible idea.
Agreed. I suspect the OP is not looking to human users sharing an uid but investigating aliasing root, i.e. a technical account. Creating root aliases is a practice I have no particular problem with, especially for a limited period of time. Allowing direct root login in the first place is more of an issue. The (slow) trend is to forbid that to happen and enforce using either sudo or rbac. With Solaris 11, root is by default a role. Solaris 10 can be configured the same way.
I would like to get an opinion for my solution for this task and get feedback about better approach or mistakes I have made.
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
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interact
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Hello,
I created a new user "rootNew"
After creation I manually change the file /etc/passwd and gave the new user "rootNew" uid 0.
Now I have 2 users with uid 0 (root,rootNew) how can I know which user is log in the system?
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Thanks,
Uri (10 Replies)
Hello,
I created a new user "rootNew"
After creation I manually change the file /etc/passwd and gave the new user "rootNew" uid 0.
Now I have 2 users with uid 0 (root,rootNew) how can I know which user is log in the system?
"whoami" command return "root" for both users.
Thanks,
Uri
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