Re: Account root re-creation

[Bruno Costacurta <cd1@biz.tiscali.be>]

On Saturday 29 October 2005 06:39, C Shore wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 07:54:26AM +0000, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > I deleted by error the account root.
> > I simply recreated (as I was still logged as root).
> >
> > Is this sufficient ?
>
> That depends, did you create with uid=0 and gid=0?  If not, you've
> created a group that is called root, but without root privileges.
>
> > And please can someone return me all groups root include by default ?
>
> uid=0 doesn't need to be a member of any groups - for the most part it
> is a special user that has full access to everything (networked
> environments can change this, for example root_squash in nfs).

Thanks for details.
Indeed I used uid=0 / gid=0 for 'root' account re-creation. 
Everything looks fine. An happy end.