multiple root accounts

[Mike McCarty]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:23 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>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"
> 
> ----
> Jeff - you have an annoying habit of piping in to a message that is a
> day old, the thread has moved on and in this case, my error was already
> pointed out AND acknowledged so it becomes something akin to piling on.
> To summarize, your post was entirely without value unless it's value was
> to annoy me.
> 
> Craig
> 

Well, then, I guess it's *not* valuless!

:-)

Only kidding!

Mike
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