multiple ID's with UID 0

[Mark Harshman_1]

I have a sever, that has about 4 ID's with UID of 0. I want to remove these (except root of course) and wanted any warnings of recommendations for gotchyas. This is on a HPUX 11i server, running in Trusted mode. Thanks

[Todd McDaniel_1]

dont do a recursive userdel -R

it will remove all files owned by that user...doh!!!

could be very bad...


go remove files and dirs individually

[RAC_1]

/usr/sbin/logins -d

will show duplicate ids. Check the user names and delete those users. (userdel/sam/vipw)

Run authck and logins -d after it.

Having more than one user with uid 0 is a very very bad thing. (At most two root users. so that in case required)

Anil

[Todd McDaniel_1]

oops lower case -r not -R...

[Ken Penland_1]

I remember having to do this way back a few years ago...if I remember correctly, it wont really hurt anything to remove those accounts, but you may have a problem actually removing them by normal means...using something like userdel or sam won't let you do it I dont think because it will check to see if any procs are in use by that user, so it will check for UID 0, which it will obviously find some. so you will prob have to manually edit the password file and auth file to change the UID before deleting the account.

[Sundar_7]

Todd was right on ! dont use the -r option with userdel and you should be good to go.

Or the safest way would be to use the vipw command and delete the entries manually.

[Todd McDaniel_1]

thanks Sundar...

Now if I can just get my wife to say that "todd is right"

hehe


no points for this post.

[Mark Harshman_1]

thanks to all for the replies.