From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 15: 9:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED13837B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5BB43E7B for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@eng.ufl.edu) Received: from eng.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA19332; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:08:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3DA74BDE.665E39C5@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:08:30 -0400 From: Bob Johnson Organization: University of Florida, College of Engineering X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, eo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fernando Gleiser Cc: "Pranav A. Desai" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ? References: <20021011094242.V3949-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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