Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:08:30 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Cc: "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ? Message-ID: <3DA74BDE.665E39C5@eng.ufl.edu> References: <20021011094242.V3949-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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Fernando Gleiser wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Pranav A. Desai wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > Thanks a lot to all those who replied. I will try to convince them > > to use sudo, as most of you have mentioned that it is a better option than > > changing /etc/passwd. If it doesnt work with them then I will use the > > second option of changing passwd. > > No, the second option is to give them the root password and tell them to log > as a normal user and then su(8) to root. The last option is to give them > accounts with full root privs. > > Fer > Why is that better? - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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