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Re: secondary root account



On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:15:53PM -0500, Errol Neal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to know how to setup a secondary account on a Linux system 
> that would have the same abilities and privledges as the "root" user, say 
> an account such as "root2". I do not want to use sudo, because the people I 
> work for do not want to use "sudo" before every command. Does anybody have 
> any suggestions?

Try this in /etc/passwd:
root2:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

You'll need something an entry in /etc/shadow, too.

I don't know what sense this makes to do this, but this should work.

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Errol U. Neal  
> 
> 
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