sudo is an ever-popular choice, just create a user account in addition to the default "root" account, and then just specify what they can do with sudo with "visudo". On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 10:12, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, jludwig wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 14:48, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > Am So, den 18.04.2004 schrieb boby um 19:43: > > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > how can i create a user with priviledge rot. > > > > i know that i can add the user to the root group . > > > > but even when i add the user to root group it can not > > > > be the same as root . system always ask me to enter > > > > root password to chang some thing . > > > > i want some thing exactly like root. > > > > > > That is a very very bad idea at all! Never ever create a user with root > > > privileges for the daily work. Else go back and use Win98 :( Seriously, > > > devide normal user and root! > > Let me pose a situation where having multiple root-capable accounts makes > sense, and let me ask: What's the best way to acomplish this? > > We have several Linux workstations and laptops. Each user can have root > on his own machine, but we don't want a user to have root on any other > machine. We have a department administrator who needs root on all > machines, but he doens't want to have to remember individual root > passwords on all the machines. > > Our Windows solution is to create two administrator-capable accounts. How > can we best do the same with Linux machines? > > > > > > > > the other thing is i up2dated my computer with root > > > > login but when one of my colleage enter to the same > > > > computer with his login name up2date is red and i > > > > should up2date it again,however i can not uptodate > > > > because i am not a root ...... is fedora kepp track of > > > > their clients by the name of user ? because it can not > > > > understand that user is in the same computer i have > > > > upgraded already . > > > > > > Maybe the up2date with the colleague's account is not configured yet. > > Or the colleague logging in triggered a check for updates. Generally, > update checking is done at some hard-coded (long) interval. And I don't > always find that the checking is done reliably (in that I see a blue check > long after updates are announced, and forcing a manual check turns the > icon red). > > > > > > > > thanks to all > > > > > > Alexander > > Sorry for a small inconvenience having to type a few keystrokes. > > > > BUT > > > > As regular user you don't have enough privileges to destroy the system. > > Abrogating root privileges at best is unwise and foolhardy. > > abrogate (v.t.): To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by > authority. > > Was that what you meant? > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Adam Voigt adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
