The default sudoers file should have a "wheel" line in it which you can simply uncomment.
Add your user to the "wheel" group, not the "root" group. -CMP On 11/13/06, jason watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hello i spent today downloading installing and updateing (851 updates) fedora core 5. as part of my senior project. after i was done, i was told to add this account, and give him root privlages. so, i added the user to the group 'root'. then i was instructed to google and find out how to delete the root account since i said i dont think its posible. so, my questions are, 1) how do i delete root? can i do it threw the normal way you delete any user account? 2) was told if i cant delete it, to find a way to lock it down and disable it... so, what all would i need to lock down? and dont i need some of the functionality of root for certin operations to be completed? 3) if its posible, for some reason, this doesnt seem like the smartest of idea's, and i need to prove to my ta(teachers assistant) why we should not delete root. thanks for any help jason _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?icid=T002MSN03A07001 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
-- Cristobal M. Palmer UNC-CH SILS Student -- ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer TriLUG Vice Chair "There are many roads to enlightenment, and thus many roads back to the One True Debian" --crimsun -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
