I found the answer the the following issue.
Enter a line in /etc/passwd as follows:
[new_super_user]:[leave_blank]:0:0:[name_of_super_user or use
chfn]:/root:/bin/bash when completely done. In /etc/group add the
user to the end of root:x:0:root,[new_super_user] with no space before
username.
After that's accomplished, type pwconv at the prompt, then press enter
(man pwconv exists). Finally, execute passwd [new_super_user] as root
and enter password. Now your finished!
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Signed,
SoloCDM
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Jake McHenry wrote:
>
> You DID set the password for the account, right? It works with my machine.
> Try setting the password again. Look in /etc/shadow to see if there is an
> encrypted string behind your new super-user.
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, SoloCDM wrote:
>
> --Prior to my server update, when I made a backdoor root access, I would
> --place a username at the end of the line for root after a comma in
> --/etc/group, then I made a user in /etc/passwd with 0 uid, 0 gid, and
> --/root as the account. No matter where I was or what I did, I could
> --act as root with all the same privileges. Now it won't work with
> --Mandrake 7.0.
> --
> --The error for a user account is:
> --
> -- su: incorrect password
> --
> --when I use su - [super-user] or su [super-user]. Although, it does
> --work when I'm logged in as root and I invoke su - [super-user]. It
> --also shows the [super-user] name in the prompt.
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