From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 15:58:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30CC37B43C for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e7KMwPj00823; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:58:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008202258.e7KMwPj00823@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Bradley D Lathan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating a second superuser account In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:58:25 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:25:55 -0400 (EDT) "Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: +------------------ | [Originted on -stable. I've moved it to -questions and Bcc:'d -stable | to end it there] | | On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Bradley D Lathan wrote: | | >How do you create a second super user account i.e. for a person that wants to program and have access to the compiler and write permissions | | Hey Brad, | There is no reason to create a | second superuser account just so somebody can program. They don't need | superuser access for anything related to the compiler and they should | have write permissions in their home directory. If this is unclear to | you you need to rework your concept of permissions perhaps. | | Brandon D. Valentine +------------------ Hey Brandon. While the OP question does sound a bit nieve, there are several good reasons to have more than one uid=0 accounts. By default FreeBSD installs a root and a toor account. -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message