how to create a root equivalent user in linux?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:46:34PM -0500, Edward Croft wrote:
> Please use visudo to edit the sudoers file. You have to log in as root
> to use it and then after that the users you assign can use sudo to run
> commands. 


In addition to setting up sudo, try this:

<http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-December/msg00369.html>

This will let you authenticate as yourself in order to run the various
GUI system config tools. (And some command-line things too.)



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