Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:25:16 -0500 From: "John Straiton" <ne@clickcom.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: user with root priviledges Message-ID: <012f01bf82c9$2e6372d0$1f16c6d1@clickcom.com> References: <38BB0AB7.BE27FF24@cyrebels.org> <00022819033902.00658@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain>
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> > is it possible to make a new user with root priviledges? If so, how? > When adding a new user, if you add him to group wheel, he has the > ability to su root. The user ID and group ID have to be zero for a user to have the same privledges, however Walter's suggestion of adding the user to wheel so they can simply 'su' is the preferred method. > > plus, why is it so unsafe to usr IRC as root? A question one might ask is why would you want to IRC as root? John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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