Why does "root" worn everything?

[Tim J Ihde]

In article <9926 at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>   I consider backups to be a
> routine administrative action, and don't have the luxury of being able
> to do the daily in single user mode. If not root, then how would you do it?

Our solution in this situation was to create a login called 'backup,' which
came up as uid zero with a special C program as its shell.  This program
then did the backup.
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