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Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:27:19 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?


> Hi!
>    I have been asked to create admin accounts for a machine such
that
> all of them can access that machine as root but with different
username
> and password.
>
> Thanks
>
> -pranav
>
> *******************************************************************
> Pranav A. Desai
>
> Home :- (937) 294 1381
> *******************************************************************
>
> On 9 Oct 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> >
> > At 2002-10-09T17:36:02Z, "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>
writes:
> >
> > > How can I create a user account that can function like a root
account with
> > > the same prilieges ? I need to create three such account. Is it
possible ?
> >
> > Short answer: you probably don't really want to do this.  What
problem are
> > you needing to solve by having multiple root accounts?
> > --
> > Kirk Strauser
> > In Googlis non est, ergo non est.


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