From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 16:12: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29C7117AA for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:12:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10579; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:13:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902200013.TAA10579@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: user In-Reply-To: <004b01be5c2d$88f6c530$3cf9c9d0@neteze.com> from Robert Trosen at "Feb 19, 99 09:30:25 am" To: trosen@neteze.com (Robert Trosen) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:13:38 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Trosen wrote, > how do i make users with rights like the root user You can give the user the same uid and gid numbers as root, 0 0. If you want a second account to use like a root account, while leaving 'root' ready for emergencies (no exotic shells or dotfiles to get it going), 'toor' comes ready to go in this role 'out of the box.' Note that if you make a user root by giving him the same uid number, applications that identify the user soley by uid will see him as root. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message