multiple root accounts

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:11 +0000, azeem ahmad wrote:
> 
> 
> >From: Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net>
> >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: multiple root accounts
> >Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:06:30 -0600
> >
> >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
> >
> >There are several techniques, but first, why? Perhaps it would
> >be better simply to give these three users the root password,
> >or put them into the sudoers file.
> >
> >Anyway, perhaps the easiest way to do this is make them aliases
> >for user number 0.
> >
> >Mike
> >--
> making alias to 0, how it could be done?
> and also the scenario is someone once changed my machine's root password. 
> now if i had another root account i could access my machine and reset root 
> password again

If someone does things like changing the root password without your
knowledge and consent, being able to change it back is only one of your
problems. You'll also need to fix whatever other damage they've done.

At least if you use sudo there will be a trace of what's been done in
the log files.

Paul.