From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 13:33:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D3D37B42C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13Smby-000OLX-00; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 21:31:30 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA57691; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 21:31:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 21:31:30 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: amir yahav Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supperuser account Message-ID: <20000826213130.B74225@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000801c00fa3$274d30f0$020101c0@home2000> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000801c00fa3$274d30f0$020101c0@home2000> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG amir yahav wrote: > On freebsd 4.1 I would like to create a new supperuser account with the same privileges as root account. > > please advice Just create an account with a UID of zero, if you're sure there isn't a better way to do whatever it is you want to achieve by this. (The "toor" account which is present in a default FreeBSD install is an example of this; it's just a root account which uses a real shell instead of csh.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message