Re: Root user

[Scott Wegener <wegster mindcore net>]

Ramon Gandia wrote:
> 
You shouldn't assuming that you run passwd on the account manually to
set it..otherwise yeah, you'll need to run pwconv if you just copy it
and leave the asame passwd.
.

> Steve Borho wrote:
> >
> >
> > adduser rewt
> > vi /etc/passwd /etc/group # change rewt's uid & gid to 0
> 
> What about /etc/shadow ?  Any need to do anything there AFTER
> changing the passwd and group uid and gid?  Do I need to
> rerun pwconv?
> 
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