Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Not for internal consumption <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@unicast.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1999 12:24:48
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On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Not for internal consumption wrote:

>Michael Richardson sez:
>/*
> * having "toor" makes it clear to people that you can have multiple
> * accounts with uid==0, and that it might be that none of them are named
> * "root"
>
>Now THIS, I  think,  POSIX has something to say about....or don't they?

Um...  No.  POSIX has the concept of `appropriate privilege', and very
intentionally leaves off discussing concepts such as user accounts or
how one goes about acquiring `appropriate privilege'.

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@unicast.com


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