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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