[RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>My idea is basically the following:
>
>- On all NT systems, create a user account called "root" which is
>  member of the administrators group.
>[snip]
>Comments?  If we agree to do as above (or similar), I would gladly
>appreciate, if I wouldn't have to do it alone.

I have always thought that it would be a good idea to implement a 'root'
user since so many UNIX programs rely on its availability.  Anything you
can do to make this so will be worthwhile, even if it isn't a perfect
solution.  IMO.