From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 10:29:15 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 94AC537B4AB for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FBC843E8A for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 10206 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 17:22:07 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-83.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (@150.140.128.171) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 17:22:07 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9AHTD3T001963; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:29:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9AHTDcC001962; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:29:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:29:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ? Message-ID: <20021010172912.GB726@hades.hell.gr> References: <200210101726.g9AHQ4A24233@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210101726.g9AHQ4A24233@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 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 On 2002-10-10 13:26, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Just create the account and add it to /etc/group after root > > for eg. > > > > wheel:*:0:root,myuser1,myuser2,myuser3 > > That would only work for doing thing that allow group modification by GID > 0. There are also many things that still must be done by UID 0. Sure. But since they are in the "wheel" group, they can always use su(1) to become root, right? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message