From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 13:25: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgmd76206.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B12137B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@cgmd76206.chello.nl) Received: by cgmd76206.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1D5631E0; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:25:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:25:01 +0200 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "Nicholas A. de Laczkovich-Siddiqi" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: change user to root Message-ID: <20010409222500.B79334@cgmd76206.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , "Nicholas A. de Laczkovich-Siddiqi" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010409161810.00a418a0@pop.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010409161810.00a418a0@pop.gmx.net>; from grinner@gmx.at on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:19:40PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:19:40PM -0400, Nicholas A. de Laczkovich-Siddiqi wrote: > Is there a possibility to give a user full root access? Or to change the > login name of "root" to something else? Change the uid to 0. The username "root" is only to identify the user, what is being checked for (should be checked for :-) is that the uid is 0. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://FatalDimensions.nl.eu.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message