Re: I am attempting to add a secadm_r

On Friday 08 April 2005 03:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> > What prevents you from doing what you describe via two usernames
> > in /etc/passwd that both map to uid 0 but have different role
> > authorizations in policy/users?
>
> prevents... nothing ... i remember something appearing to go
> wrong when i did that last - something to do with samba, it
> ended up at the username "root" even though i'd logged in as
> "root2".

It's annoying that $USER and $LOGNAME have the first entry in the passwd file that has the right UID. Maybe the best thing to do would be to have ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile set $USER and $LOGNAME based on $HOME. There's nothing we can do about "id -un" though.

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