From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 20:44:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from l1.ds.net (l1.ds.net [207.239.204.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A43237BAA5 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@ds.net) Received: from ds.net (i1p78.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.78]) by l1.ds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05246; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:44:12 -0500 Message-ID: <38B4B738.BF1F0587@ds.net> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:44:40 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Rohrer Cc: anand , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!Root equivalent!!!!!!!!! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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