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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?
To: unixtools@hotmail.com (Unix Tools)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:26:04 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pdesai1@cs.uh.edu (Pranav A. Desai),
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> 
> Just create the account and add it to /etc/group after root
> for eg.
> 
> wheel:*:0:root,myuser1,myuser2,myuser3
> 

That would only work for doing thing that allow group modification
by GID 0.
There are also many things that still must be done by UID 0.

////jerry

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:06 PM
> Subject: How to create another account with root privileges ?
> 
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 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 ?
> >
> > Thanks for the help
> >
> > -Pranav
> >
> > *******************************************************************
> > Pranav A. Desai
> >
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