Multiple Root ID's considered evil?

[Tom Christiansen]

Some site are known to have multiple uid 0 accounts so not 
everyone needs to know the root password.  I seem to recall
that this is considered a poor idea for security reasons.
Could someone please explain why?

thanks,

--tom


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