Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:44:40 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> To: Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu> Cc: anand <anand@dataproindia.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!Root equivalent!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: <38B4B738.BF1F0587@ds.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10002231834100.21969-100000@uhunix2>
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Matt Rohrer wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, anand wrote: > > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > > > How do I create a user of root equivalent on freeBSD 2.2.5. > > Add the user to the "wheel" group. > Actually it's a bit more complicated to make a user equivalent to root. The system doesn't care one bit about usernames or group names, it cares about numeric id's. To make a user with the same privs as root you need to use 'vipw' to edit the password file. In this case, you want to change the group-id and user-id of new root user to 0 and 0. If you just want a user with the ability to 'su' to root - it's as simple as adding the username to the wheel group, as mentioned above. > > Also I have tried to make DNS entries on the freeBSD 2.2.5 , but it did not worked . > > > > Can you guide me on how to make DNS entries on freeBSD 2.2.5 What exactly do you mean? Do you need to add names to /etc/hosts or are you trying to use BIND? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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