Re: root equivalent user
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0300, Nicol?s Conde wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and I'd like to know how (if possible) to create a
> user with uid != 0 but that can do administrative tasks (add/delete
> user/groups, change permissions/ownership, run admin scripts such as
> 'updatedb', etc.).
'sudo' lets you give non-root users the ability to become root for
certain commands. Its configuration file is /etc/sudoers, described in
the sudoers(5) man page. If I were you I'd ignore the long and detailed
description of the format at the top of the man page and skip down to
the examples near the bottom.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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