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From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: make a user root
Date: 29 Jan 1997 02:46:42 GMT
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Tim Trampedach (ttt5@columbia.edu) wrote:
: I will soon be getting a Pentium machine to run FreeBSD on and I was
: wondering if it is possible to make a user root in the sense that there
: are no differences when logging in between the two. Since it will mainly
The best (well, perhaps most secure) way to do it would be to give yourself
sudo privs, which means you must enter sudo before each privileged command
you execute (yes, you'll keep your identity and etc). The other method
would be adding your userid to /etc/group next to root in the wheel group.
You would gain root access by su'ing to root.
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Nate [nvp@shore.net||nvp@nfic.com]
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