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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:19:05 -0700
From:      Joshua <jolok@myrealbox.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?
Message-ID:  <20021010011905.GA17664@joloxbox.joshualokken.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0210091959180.670-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu>
References:  <87k7krlanz.fsf@pooh.int> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0210091959180.670-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu>

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On or about Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:02:08PM -0500, Pranav A. Desai scrawled=
..
> Hi!
>    I have been asked to create admin accounts for a machine such that
> all of them can access that machine as root but with different username
> and password.
>=20
> Thanks
>=20
> -pranav
>=20
> *******************************************************************
> Pranav A. Desai
>=20
> Home :- (937) 294 1381
> *******************************************************************
>=20
> On 9 Oct 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>=20
> >
> > At 2002-10-09T17:36:02Z, "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu> writes:
> >
> > > 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 possi=
ble ?
> >
> > Short answer: you probably don't really want to do this.  What problem =
are
> > you needing to solve by having multiple root accounts?
> > --
> > Kirk Strauser
> > In Googlis non est, ergo non est.


I'd say just put them in 'wheel' and use sudo, as was offered.

Joshua
--=20
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

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