sudo is the answer!
they can just do something like "sudo sh" from their normal account and
they are effectively root :) they have to authenticate themselves using
their own password, and you can control how much access they have.
I *really* strongly recomend that you don't create another user with uid
0. some things can get confused :(
chris
"Hossein S. Zadeh" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, David Hansen Jr. wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to make a second user, similar to root, that has full access
> > w/o having to type su each time? I've got a 6.1 box that I have my p/w set
> > as su, but I need to give another full access, but I don't want him to know
> > my password, and I'm not too fond of changing it.
>
> I am strongly against this, but:
> If you really Really REALLY want to do this, just create a new user with
> user id 0 (zero). But be warned that he doesn't have root privilages, he
> IS root (merely with a different password).
>
> Hossein
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