You can use sudo to give normal users temporaruy root access.
But, I would think twice(thrice) about giving a normal user root
privileges. It's as risky as shooting yourself in the foot, if not as
painful! :)
You might as well give the user the root password!
-Naren
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, mukund wrote:
>
>
> >On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, mukund spewed into the ether:
> >> You can not give uid=0 because root has it. At the most give uid=1 and
> gid=0
> >> so that the user can draw maximum privileges, but can not delete root
> owned
> >> files.
> >Actually, you can have n number of users with the same UID. Their
> >default login names and home directories and environments can be
> >specified in /etc/passwd and ~, but they will have the same privileges
> >as each other.
>
>
> You can change uid by editing /etc/passwd ( I do not do it, as once I
> suffered) , but if you try to create a user with same uid/gid with useradd
> or adduser, it will refuse (that's better for health of linux box)
> Therefore it is better to give maximum privilege to a user by uid=1 gid=0.
> Regards,
> Mukund Deshmukh
> Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
> Web site - http://betacomp.com
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