How to give root privileges

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 18:01:59 UTC 2007


On 3/30/07, Leslie Jordan <ljordan at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I give a user 'root privileges'?

For full root privileges I usually put the user in the wheel group and
adjust /etc/pam.d/su to taste. Lots of people prefer giving access
through the sudo command so take a look at that way too. It allows you
to restrict what the user can do as root as well.

John




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