Re: Multiple Passwords
From: Deron Meranda (deron.meranda_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/10/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:05:13 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:02:02 +0000, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@mac.com> wrote:
> > How can i have multiple passwords on single account. and please tell
> > me what possible use could there be to have more than one password to
> > a Linux account?
>
> I think you can by hand editing the /etc/passwd file to assign the same
> UID to several users - I've never tried it, but I have heard of it.
Yes it works, just choose different usernames but assign them all to
the same uid and gid numbers and home directory. You'll have to
edit /etc/passwd (or NIS) manually; or use the adduser command
with the -o option to allow non-unique uids.
Also note that for each username/password, the operation of the
account will appear identical, except:
* The $LOGNAME environment variable will be set to whichever
username was used to log in (see the manpage for login(1)).
* File ownerships (such as if you do ls -l) will appear to be owned
by the first user in the passwd file with that uid. If you're using
NIS it will appear random (do to sorting by hash values).
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