Re: passwd oddity

[Blazej Sawionek <B.Sawionek@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

> I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID
> is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or
> `whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway..

I used it under Solaris, and it was quite a Good Thing. 

The root account was reserved for _real_problems_, and all the
administrators could use their own root-usernames and change passwords
(eg. in case one of them realised his password was discovered) without
having to inform the other ones  - good security measure.

Blazej