On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Pablo Ares Gastesi wrote:
you can do "passwd new-root-user" and it will change the password of the new-root-user, even if the uid is 0; it will not change the password of root. At least in my system (Debian 2.2 with kernel
well, the way passwd works is it first checks the uid of the user, and then changes the password of the first user it finds with that uid. that's how it worked for me when i tried it - more than four score and several moons ago.