On Tuesday 05 April 2005 15:10, Chethiya K Ranaweera wrote: > Hello people, > I want to create a user with administrative peviledges. First I > created a user and checked the /etc/passwd file. His IUD and GID were > 500:500( I think this is by default from Redhat). Then I tried to > change GID to 0, logged back into the system. He did not have admin > access. Does anybody know how to give a user administrative > previledges, so that he can update the system ,,, etc?? > > -Chethiya Rather than doing that, se sudo to give the user certain access. Please read the manual for sudo command. man sudo Then the user can just login with his/her own username, and for administrative task he/she can use the sudo command. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
