logging of root logins

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Arthur de Jong wrote:

>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > hm, i don't think uid sharing is a standard unix feature.
>
> I agree that it's not a very nice thing to do but I know several
> organisations that use several ROOT accounts. It's nice to have several
> passwords to access ROOT priviliges. (I know sudo or similar is better but
> not as convenient).
>
I hate the idea of multiple UID 0 accounts.  I tolerate it one machine
machine here because I could not get the backing of my manager to shut
down the second account.

[..]
> > do we really need backward compatibility for printing ROOT
> > in upper case?
>
> I personally like capatalized ROOT because it makes root logins stick out
> in the logs. Maybe something like:
>

I think the patch you sent to the OpenSSH@ list is correct.  I don't
think is it required to have 'ROOT' in caps.

- Ben