Create use with root privileges.

JonathanAnon · 26-Aug-2006, 12:22 PM #1

I need to create a user account that has the same privileges as the root user. How can I do this.

zxcvbnm · 26-Aug-2006, 03:36 PM #2

What Distro are you using?

JonathanAnon · 26-Aug-2006, 05:20 PM #3

Redhat Linux Fedora 4

Anakrino · 26-Aug-2006, 05:48 PM #4

It's been a while but, if I remember correctly, if you edit /etc/passwd and change the user's user id number to zero (like root) they'll have all of root's privileges.

Jacob

Regicide · 26-Aug-2006, 09:44 PM #5

I would recomend that you use the command 'su' which will make the current user have root privliges.

utanja · 27-Aug-2006, 01:02 AM #6

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Originally Posted by Regicide

I would recomend that you use the command 'su' which will make the current user have root privliges.

ditto...

Anakrino · 27-Aug-2006, 02:06 AM #7

I guess it depends on what you mean. If you just need an account to be able to run some programs as though they were root you could use the sudo command. Then they wouldn't need to know root's password.

Jacob

Squashman · 28-Aug-2006, 08:29 PM #8

SUDO is the best solution to this problem. This way you can log everything that is done with any of your SUDO users.

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