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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Folks:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am a newbie so I apologize in advance if this is a silly set of questions. I am using FreeIPA 2.1.3 on CentOS 6.2 and am very happy with it but I have a couple of questions about root access. When I setup my systems, I configured root manually on each of them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does it make sense to define the root user in FreeIPA? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is it desirable from a security and administration perspective? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If it does make sense, is it as simple as adding the “root” user in “ipa user-add”?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>