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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:25:01 +0200
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        "Nicholas A. de Laczkovich-Siddiqi" <grinner@gmx.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: change user to root
Message-ID:  <20010409222500.B79334@cgmd76206.chello.nl>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010409161810.00a418a0@pop.gmx.net>; from grinner@gmx.at on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:19:40PM -0400
References:  <5.0.2.1.2.20010409161810.00a418a0@pop.gmx.net>

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:19:40PM -0400, Nicholas A. de Laczkovich-Siddiqi wrote:
> Is there a possibility to give a user full root access? Or to change the 
> login name of "root" to something else?

Change the uid to 0.

The username "root" is only to identify the user, what is being
checked for (should be checked for :-) is that the uid is 0.

Edwin

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