On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:15:53PM -0500, Errol Neal wrote: > 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?
If your only problem with sudo is that people will have to type is before every command, you could use sudo -s (or sudo bash or whatever) - that way people will get a root shell. They will remain 'as root' until they quit that shell. Or perhaps allow su? Regards, -- Stephanie Boyd http://www.ixtab.org.uk/slb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]