user with root priviledge

[Adam Voigt]

sudo is an ever-popular choice, just create a user account in addition
to the default "root" account, and then just specify what they can do
with sudo with "visudo".


On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 10:12, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, jludwig wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 14:48, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > > Am So, den 18.04.2004 schrieb boby um 19:43:
> > >
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > how can i create a user with priviledge rot.
> > > > i know that i can add the user to the root group .
> > > > but even when i add the user to root group it can not
> > > > be the same as root . system always ask me to enter
> > > > root password to chang some thing .
> > > > i want some thing exactly like root.
> > >
> > > That is a very very bad idea at all! Never ever create a user with root
> > > privileges for the daily work. Else go back and use Win98 :( Seriously,
> > > devide normal user and root!
> 
> Let me pose a situation where having multiple root-capable accounts makes
> sense, and let me ask: What's the best way to acomplish this?
> 
> We have several Linux workstations and laptops.  Each user can have root
> on his own machine, but we don't want a user to have root on any other
> machine.  We have a department administrator who needs root on all
> machines, but he doens't want to have to remember individual root
> passwords on all the machines.
> 
> Our Windows solution is to create two administrator-capable accounts.  How
> can we best do the same with Linux machines?
> 
> > >
> > > > the other thing is i up2dated my computer with root
> > > > login but when one of my colleage enter to the same
> > > > computer with his login name up2date is red and i
> > > > should up2date it again,however i can not uptodate
> > > > because i am not a root ...... is fedora kepp track of
> > > > their clients by the name of user ? because it can not
> > > > understand that user is in the same computer i have
> > > > upgraded already .
> > >
> > > Maybe the up2date with the colleague's account is not configured yet.
> 
> Or the colleague logging in triggered a check for updates.  Generally,
> update checking is done at some hard-coded (long) interval.  And I don't
> always find that the checking is done reliably (in that I see a blue check
> long after updates are announced, and forcing a manual check turns the
> icon red).
> 
> > >
> > > > thanks to all
> > >
> > > Alexander
> > Sorry for a small inconvenience having to type a few keystrokes.
> >
> > BUT
> >
> > As regular user you don't have enough privileges to destroy the system.
> > Abrogating root privileges at best is unwise and foolhardy.
> 
> abrogate (v.t.): To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by
> authority.
> 
> Was that what you meant?
> 
> -- 
> 		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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Adam Voigt
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