yogesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 29. kesäkuuta 2006 09:50): > how to create new super user from terminal in fedora core 3 There's exactly one superuser account in any Linux/Unix system, the one with UID=0 and username "root". You can't create a "new" one. If you must give more than one user the superuser privileges, use the "sudo" mechanism. See "man sudoers" and "man sudo". > also how i protect root user password so that no one will > break it Choose a long enough random character string, don't write it down, don't login directly to root account (use su) and don't tell it to anyone. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx