On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:23 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:00 +0000, azeem ahmad wrote: > > hi list > > i want more than 1 root accounts in FC4, for example > > user: root > > user: must > > user:azeem > > all the 3 accounts should have the same root previligies to do anything on > > the system > > how it could be done > ---- > everyone else has suggested that you change the uid # in /etc/passwd to > 0 which may very well do what you want but there is another mechanism in > place...sudo which might be more in line with security... > > an entry in /etc/sudoers like... > > craig ALL=(ALL) ALL > > would do something similar but you would have to supply root password to > have root privileges. > Not quite. With sudo you need the USERS password, not the root password. > if you did something like this... > > Cmnd_Alias IPOD=/sbin/modprobe -r sbp2 > Cmnd_Alias EJECT=/usr/bin/eject /dev/sda2,/usr/bin/eject /dev/sdb2 > > craig ALL= NOPASSWD : IPOD, EJECT > > then user 'craig' could do those specific commands without a password. > Suit yourself, it's your system but I would ***heavily*** recommend > against a real 'user' having a uid of "0" > > Craig >
