Error Schmerror

[dglenn]

Error
There are multiple users with the same UID ("0") in the file /etc/passwd.
Correct them manually before running the YaST users module again.

Oh yeah? Pbbbbbbt! There are two users with UID 0 because there

Comments

BSD does it

[unix_vicky]

All my BSD machines (Free- and Net-) have 2 users with UID 0:

root - uses a csh (which may or may not be a link to tcsh)

toor - uses a Bourne (or Bourne-again) shell

Re: BSD does it

[unix_vicky]

Maybe I should clarify one thing (in case anyone cares):
This is how the BSD default install works, not something I did.

[dfn_doe]

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.

[dfn_doe]

Also, YMMV but I've been very disappointed with the quality of the last 3 or 4 releases of Novell/Suse linux.

[en_ki]

...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.

[n5red]

You're using SUSE? Ewww. Novell is doomed and YaST just plain sucks.

My Linux of choice is CentOS, but there are a number of very good options available,

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