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Old 09-02-2011
Question Duplicated UID

Hi folks!

I need you help to discover what's the impact of a duplicated UID in an operating system. What's the meaning when someone put in different users the same UID?
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Old 09-02-2011
What do you think?
What are you thinking of?
Most cases its a way to have account aliases (so same privileges...) side effect do exist though...
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Old 09-02-2011
Both users will own the same files as well. If this is the objective the better way to do it is to create a group and make both users members of that group.
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Old 09-05-2011
Folks, thank you so much! You both answer clear my doubt.
 
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