If you want another user to have full root privelages, you can edit the /etc/passwd file and manually create a user with the UID of '0'. This will in fact make another user a root user.
Sincerely, Travis McCarter SunriseNetwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunrisenetwork.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:16 PM To: Redhat-List@Redhat. Com Subject: another user admin how can an user other than root can be given permissions for account creation, deletion, password changing, etc. error for a normal user: chpasswd: can't lock password file err... newbie question ?? --------------------------------------------- Rupendra Singh <http://rupendra.s5.com/> Student MCA-5th sem KIET Ghaziabad, India --------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
