Re: help! (root user)

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting LOMBARDO MARCO (mlombardo@mail.inforel.it):
> hi! i'm marco from italy, and i have a question on the linux os.
> i need to create a new user with the same privilage of "root" user, i tried
> to do these command :

AIUI the privileges of root are not a function of the four letters r o o t
but of having UID = 0. So just set the UID of that user in the passwd file
to 0. I don't know what advantages that confers on your system. I find
/bin/su -
just as easy to type as logging in as root or anybody else.

Cheers,

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