On Saturday 09 October 2004 01:14 pm, Knowles Burrell wrote:
> Adding yourself to the root group doesn't give you root access... as
> far as I have been able to tell. I tried to simply add someone to that
> group recently (as security through obscurity measures). Yes I know
> those don't really work.
You get the exact same GROUP rights as root has. No more, no less.
This means that whatever root's GROUP rights are for a program, directory or
whatever, you would have the same.
It's not the same as being root. But it's a really bad idea. There's no good
reason to mix any user up with root. It breaks the whole idea of having a
root account in the first place.
--Steve Szmidt
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