How i can change my root username

Stickyfgz · #1 4th March 2005, 03:23 PM

I was wondering if i can change my root user password cause it appears that the root and another user have the same name but 2 different password and i cant log with my root one.

ilja · #2 4th March 2005, 03:25 PM

log in as a normal user and do become root with su - (http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#root)
then do

Code:

passwd

and change the password.

How comes there are two users called root?

Jman · #3 5th March 2005, 05:45 AM

There's a graphical tool for this. On the menu, System Settings > Root Password.

james_in_denver · #4 5th March 2005, 05:50 AM

The only way to end up with two users as root is to assign another "user-name" the root "UID". (numeric representation for a "user-id")

If edit/cat (or better yet man) "/etc/passwd" you will see the third field is a number. That is the "UID" field.

The only way to have two(or more) accounts running as "root", is to have two (or more) "user-names" using the root "UID' value of "0"(zero).