On Thursday 20 November 2003 01:03 pm, Richard Crawford wrote: > Let me add a disclaimer at the beginning of this: I do not know why this > person wants to do this, and I have already advised them that it is not > the safest course of action. > > But anyway. > > They want to set up their user login on their home *nix machine so that > they have root privileges. I have never done this and I've never had a > need for it, but I imagine there's a way to do it. What is that way?
Having root privileges means your UID is 0 - i.e. you are logged in as root. I have never tried this, but I suppose you could go into /etc/passwd, etc/shadow and /etc/group and rename root to some other name. But there is surely a better way to do whatever it is that your friend wants to do. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech