On Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:04 PM V P wrote: > >*Highly Unrecommended (FYI)* : You will have to manually add a >user to the /etc/passwd file with the UID/GID 0. So whenever >you login, you end up in root's home with root priviledges. >Even 'who' shows root as logged in. > > >-- Not necessary. Use the following to set the UID to 0. It is not good security practice, however. I have done it in the past so that selected Active Directory administrator accounts become root when logging in via Kerberos. useradd -u 0 -o username where username is the name of the user. The -o option forces duplicate UIDs. BTW, it is also bad practice to edit /etc/passwd directly. Use vipw instead. -- Shawn
