Problem with just having him in the same group is that group and owner privileges are rarely identical so unless steps where always made to make them identical this would not have the same result as an alias. So I take it that there is no such animal as a user alias (other than for mail purposes)?
Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Canary Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: alias You would create a second user named coo with the same password as fred, and assign coo to the fred group. Larry Brown wrote: > > Is it possible to create an alias for a user for login etc. Example would > be a user named fred in the Linux system. I want to create an alias named > coo for Fred. So fred could log in as coo with the password Fred would > normally use and log in. He would look like the user coo but would have all > of the access rights and privileges of Fred. Then as a follow-up, if it is > possible, is it possible to do this for root? > > Larry S. Brown > Dimension Networks, Inc. > (727) 723-8388 > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
