On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:15:53PM -0500, Errol Neal wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know how to setup a secondary account on a Linux system > that would have the same abilities and privledges as the "root" user, say > an account such as "root2". I do not want to use sudo, because the people I > work for do not want to use "sudo" before every command. Does anybody have > any suggestions?
Try this in /etc/passwd: root2:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash You'll need something an entry in /etc/shadow, too. I don't know what sense this makes to do this, but this should work. > > TIA, > > Errol U. Neal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
