Timeline for Root and my password are the same
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| Jul 31, 2014 at 6:46 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | @Gilles, I don't agree. You can have different users with the same uid but different gid and supplementary gids (see how the members in /etc/group are referenced by name, not uid), different login parameters... It's less and less common, especially considering that things like sudo don't work well with that. | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 23:09 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @StéphaneChazelas No, separate users means separate user IDs. There can be multiple entries in the user database(s) with different user names for the same user ID, but these are all the same user, sharing all security contexts (file ownership, signals, etc.) and differing only in login methods (e.g. different passwords and different shells but leading to the same account). | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 16:22 | vote | accept | user75027 | ||
| Jul 30, 2014 at 13:34 | comment | added | countermode | The explanation doesn't quite answer the question. What has the user ID to do with that at all? Also, the URL does not really shed light on the answer to the question. | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 7:03 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | Separate users doesn't necessarily mean separate User IDs. User IDs have no bearing on this. The primary key in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow is the user name, not user ID (which is not even mentioned in /etc/shadow). | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 6:15 | comment | added | Ulrich Schwarz | Just to mention the word here: it's called salting the hash. | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 5:24 | history | edited | No Time | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 141 characters in body |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 5:18 | history | answered | No Time | CC BY-SA 3.0 |