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From: sol_newbie on 29 Jun 2008 12:31
My understanding is:
the login group for the Superuser must have GID 0.

But, after building a solaris 8 box I see GID as 1
In the similar way I build a solaris 10 box and I see GID as 0

Any ideas?

[q1] why the GID is different between 8 vs 10?
[q2] is it acceptable to have GID as 1 for root? (will it cause any
issues?)
[q3] Do I have to manually edit the passwd file to change 1 to 0?

TIA.
From: sol_newbie on 30 Jun 2008 08:37
On Jun 29, 12:31 pm, sol_newbie <muthuganes...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding is:
> the login group for the Superuser must have GID 0.
>
> But, after building a solaris 8 box I see GID as 1
> In the similar way I build a solaris 10 box and I see GID as 0
>
> Any ideas?
>
> [q1] why the GID is different between 8 vs 10?
> [q2] is it acceptable to have GID as 1 for root? (will it cause any
> issues?)
> [q3] Do I have to manually edit the passwd file to change 1 to 0?
>
> TIA.

Guys,

if there are any 'RTFM' then please point me there.

Google search is not helping so asking for your help ;-)

TIA
From: Stefan Krüger on 30 Jun 2008 09:25
sol_newbie wrote:
> My understanding is:
> the login group for the Superuser must have GID 0.
>
> But, after building a solaris 8 box I see GID as 1
> In the similar way I build a solaris 10 box and I see GID as 0
>
> Any ideas?
>
> [q1] why the GID is different between 8 vs 10?

design decisions? software evolution? ;)

> [q2] is it acceptable to have GID as 1 for root? (will it cause any
> issues?)

since root is only used rarely to do administration tasks, I don't think
this will cause any issues

> [q3] Do I have to manually edit the passwd file to change 1 to 0?

mh no, see 8.7 in

http://www.nsa.gov/notices/notic00004.cfm?Address=/snac/os/sunsol/I331-008R-2004.pdf

on how to do it w/o editing all necessary files in /etc manually

> TIA.
From: Michael Tosch on 30 Jun 2008 15:40
sol_newbie wrote:
> My understanding is:
> the login group for the Superuser must have GID 0.
>
> But, after building a solaris 8 box I see GID as 1
> In the similar way I build a solaris 10 box and I see GID as 0
>
> Any ideas?
>
> [q1] why the GID is different between 8 vs 10?
> [q2] is it acceptable to have GID as 1 for root? (will it cause any
> issues?)
> [q3] Do I have to manually edit the passwd file to change 1 to 0?
>
> TIA.

Yep,
getent passwd root
shows :0:1: for Solaris 8 and 9
and :0:0: for Solaris 10.

You better do not change it - might break some integrity checks
(e.g. pkgchk).


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