On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:26:43PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>How about leaving the 'root' entry in master.passwd intact (so you can
>still boot single user, etc.), and adding a 'toor' or 'nisroot' (call
>it whatever you want) user to the NIS maps. This way, your machine
>can function without an NIS server should the need arise, but you
>still have a global superuser account. You can even disable the local
>root account if you wish (use '*' in the password field). As Lyndon
>said, and I agree, "not having local entries for root and wheel is
>just asking for trouble."
It's all about password management. I don't want to manually
distribute the master.passwd file to every workstation every time we
decide to change the password.
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Damien Tougas
Systems Administrator
Carroll-Net, Inc.
http://www.carroll.com
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