[X4U] User account "short name"

Joe Block jpb at ApesSeekingKnowledge.net
Fri Jul 2 05:43:25 PDT 2004


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On Jun 23, 2004, at 6:51 PM, Alex wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, Jun 23, 2004, at 12:44 Canada/Eastern, Robert Ameeti 
> wrote:
>
>> [...] The firstly created account is different from all future 
>> created admin accounts.
>
> When I do
>
> $nidump nidump -r /users .
>
> the only difference between one admin user and another (excepting 
> name, password, etc.) is UID. Is there anything special about 501? 
> Where can we read more about it?

No, there isn't.

I've deleted the initial admin account on all of my personal machines 
and created a new admin with a different UID (I nfs mount directories 
from my linux boxes and it's easier to have the same UID for accounts 
everywhere) and don't have any problem doing anything that requires an 
administrator account.

jpb
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