multiple root accounts

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:23 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:00 +0000, azeem ahmad wrote:
> > hi list
> > i want more than 1 root accounts in FC4, for example
> > user: root
> > user: must
> > user:azeem
> > all the 3 accounts should have the same root previligies to do anything on 
> > the system
> > how it could be done
> ----
> everyone else has suggested that you change the uid # in /etc/passwd to
> 0 which may very well do what you want but there is another mechanism in
> place...sudo which might be more in line with security...
> 
> an entry in /etc/sudoers like...
> 
> craig   ALL=(ALL) ALL
> 
> would do something similar but you would have to supply root password to
> have root privileges.
> 
Not quite.  With sudo you need the USERS password, not the root
password.


> if you did something like this...
> 
> Cmnd_Alias IPOD=/sbin/modprobe -r sbp2
> Cmnd_Alias EJECT=/usr/bin/eject /dev/sda2,/usr/bin/eject /dev/sdb2
> 
> craig   ALL= NOPASSWD : IPOD, EJECT
> 
> then user 'craig' could do those specific commands without a password.
> Suit yourself, it's your system but I would ***heavily*** recommend
> against a real 'user' having a uid of "0"
> 
> Craig
>