Errol Neal said: > Hello, > > I would like to know how to setup a secondary account on a Linux system > that would have the same abilities and privledges as the "root" user, say > an account such as "root2". I do not want to use sudo, because the people > I work for do not want to use "sudo" before every command. Does anybody > have any suggestions?
you can configure sudo so all you do is sudo bash and you have a root shell. You can even configure it not to prompt for any password I think too. after sudo bash you can continue just as if you did a su and entered the password. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]