Re: how to make a non-root user as superuser

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Subject: Re: how to make a non-root user as superuser
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:38:42 +0530
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Michael Yep wrote:

I think you can just set the uid to 0 in the /etc/passwd file

You can do this but its a bad idea. I would suggest getting it configured through Sudo instead

regards
Rahul

References:
- how to make a non-root user as superuser
  - From: harshavardhanreddy mandeepala
- Re: how to make a non-root user as superuser
  - From: Ankush Grover
- Re: how to make a non-root user as superuser
  - From: Ankush Grover
- Re: how to make a non-root user as superuser
  - From: Michael Yep