From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 11 11:25:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9B616A417 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:25:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C255E13C448 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:25:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so1007113pyb for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:25:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=F4M+yQvbkHg3BLwPG52SgZ2rd5Jj3OMI4zvbRexCoo8=; b=lDmgIcDONbJYVAzVSlDMGqKZC0X9eh3nb0r5BmHzug6cGjnoTsEuBFfY1Rqd9sJ45MUrlshX/9PEQbVgHu3CorkXlYP1SDu1RI81UtQZu1KvrgwXiitxGK/s8R7SEbJlKpvwzsp7aeWMwpU91TbCOcCuRSkiitbE9fgbJeC9Kwk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AoHLFcqHiBFxLNpyJt5LiUh3tfnPlhejtLjLG2u4OBZljlgm+u79tz3YRGFElacweJqGaQSN/0vnQ2j1ooj83o81m6MWvrwvkNrrGvQ6O47w6/vLTMLNJw4rXIyPh+EJ+OlacoIePVyTmn+gGVw8V1Joe8qRLHl36/oNzMqsU8I= Received: by 10.64.27.13 with SMTP id a13mr3778801qba.1192101918480; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.105.2 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:25:18 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: williamkow In-Reply-To: <470E0667.7080000@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <470E0667.7080000@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:25:20 -0000 On 10/11/07, williamkow wrote: > Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD > 6.2-Release. > I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as > I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start > KDE, i use command "kdm" but I can only logon using the newly created > user name "william", but it do not have same permission/access rights as > "root" account. > Please show on how to enable this user account, with the same permission > as root ? run vipw from the command line and edit the entry's uid and gid (the 3rd and 4th fields).... editing the password file directly is inherently so you should read all the related documentation and such (including the format and meaning of each field)