[chat] Re: [SLUG] renaming root to Root

[DaZZa <dazza@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Conrad Parker wrote:


{bad quoting style copied. I don't usually reply at the top of messages}

You are unbelievable.

Which part of "And you ask this on a Linux list exactly WHY?" is impolite?

Or is it really the expression of the fact that it's a dumbshit idea to
rename the root user that jangled your committee-man's chain?

I've seen similar questions - asked about _another OS_ than the one we
supposedly are here to discuss - asked in this forum and get flamed a
shitload worse than that.

Where do you draw the line, Conrad? Do we answer questions about AIX?
HPUX? IRIX? They're all just variants of *nix, aren't they? What about NT?
It's got some basis of *nix in its kernel, way back when. OS/2? MSDOS?

Where the hell do you draw the line?

That was a hell of a lot nicer than it woulda been if I'da just come out
of reading ASR. He made a mistake. Fine. I answered his question - and
educated him to the fact that slug is *not* the place to ask about Solaris
problems.

DaZZa

> oi, be nice Dazza -- it's monday morning and the poor bloke's twiddled
> his passwd file by accident. Sure it's a tad off-topic but you can be
> polite about it.
>
> K.
>
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:49:47PM +1100, DaZZa wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Goldfinch, Andrew wrote:
> >
> > > OK guys, here's a challenge.
> > >
> > > I have managed to rename root to Root in my /etc/passwd.
> > > I cannot logon as Root as my /etc/shadow refers to the uname not uid.
> > > Am I royally screwed? I am on SunOS 5.8
> >
> > And you ask this on a Linux list exactly WHY?
> >
> > ObHint - boot from your install CD to a system, then fsck and mount
> > appropriate slice, edit /etc/passwd to put root instead of Root, shutdown,
> > reboot, viola. Exact details of how to do this are left as an exercise to
> > the reader.
> >
> > Renaming the Superuser account is a dumbshit idea. Don't do it again.
> >
> > DaZZa
> >
> >
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>

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