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posted by [identity profile] dfn-doe.livejournal.com at 07:21pm on 2007-03-19
It's bad form and will probably break some things if you have two users which have the same uuid...

The proper way to do it is to have bother users in the wheel group and then allow wheel to su and/or to use sudo.

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posted by [identity profile] dfn-doe.livejournal.com at 07:23pm on 2007-03-19
Also, YMMV but I've been very disappointed with the quality of the last 3 or 4 releases of Novell/Suse linux.
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posted by [identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com at 08:29pm on 2007-03-19
...unless you use "su -" to keep the environment clean, or you want a normal root user with bash and an alternate root user with a shell that has lots of commands built-in for emergencies, or ...

This is an old-school Unixy way of doing things. There are other ways to do things, but sysadmin software insisting that this is wrong is itself wrong.
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