From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 7:25:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stargate.clickcom.com (stargate.clickcom.com [209.198.22.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32C637BB9B for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:25:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ne@clickcom.com) Received: from fishbowl (dhcp1.clickcom.com [209.198.22.31]) by stargate.clickcom.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id F5S9RQQ1; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:25:20 -0500 Message-ID: <012f01bf82c9$2e6372d0$1f16c6d1@clickcom.com> From: "John Straiton" To: References: <38BB0AB7.BE27FF24@cyrebels.org> <00022819033902.00658@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Subject: Re: user with root priviledges Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:25:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > is it possible to make a new user with root priviledges? If so, how? > When adding a new user, if you add him to group wheel, he has the > ability to su root. The user ID and group ID have to be zero for a user to have the same privledges, however Walter's suggestion of adding the user to wheel so they can simply 'su' is the preferred method. > > plus, why is it so unsafe to usr IRC as root? A question one might ask is why would you want to IRC as root? John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message