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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:08:30 -0400
From:      Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu>
To:        Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
Cc:        "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?
Message-ID:  <3DA74BDE.665E39C5@eng.ufl.edu>
References:  <20021011094242.V3949-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>

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Fernando Gleiser wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Pranav A. Desai wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> >
> >       Thanks a lot to all those who replied. I will try to convince them
> > to use sudo, as most of you have mentioned that it is a better option than
> > changing /etc/passwd. If it doesnt work with them then I will use the
> > second option of changing passwd.
> 
> No, the second option is to give them the root password and tell them to log
> as a normal user and then su(8) to root. The last option is to give them
> accounts with full root privs.
> 
>                         Fer
> 

Why is that better?

- Bob

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