From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 18: 2:11 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 3A3DC37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from letos.cs.uh.edu (letos.cs.uh.edu [129.7.240.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9DC43E42 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdesai1@cs.uh.edu) Received: from themis.cs.uh.edu (themis [129.7.240.5]) by letos.cs.uh.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9A128o09172 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:02:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (pdesai1@localhost) by themis.cs.uh.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g9A128t00696 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:02:08 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: themis.cs.uh.edu: pdesai1 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:02:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Pranav A. Desai" To: Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ? In-Reply-To: <87k7krlanz.fsf@pooh.int> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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. Thanks -pranav ******************************************************************* Pranav A. Desai Home :- (937) 294 1381 ******************************************************************* On 9 Oct 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-10-09T17:36:02Z, "Pranav A. Desai" 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 possible ? > > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message