--- On Tue, 20/3/12, Ganesh Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Ganesh Kumar <[email protected]> > Subject: [Ilugc] Multiple passwords for root user in Linux > To: "ILUG-C" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 20 March, 2012, 1:22 PM > HI Guys, > > Anybody have seen two passwords working for the root user in > a server to > access with ssh. > Is it possible to have multiple passwords for a user in any > system. please > guide me. > > -Ganesh. Multiple users with root privilege can exists in a system. However there will be only one user name 'root'. It is not 'root' that determines the privileges , but it is the uid in /etc/passwd that determines. You can have multiple users with root privilege by doing following steps 1. Copy the line containing root user information in /etc/passwd into a new line and change the name 'root' some thing else say 'root1'. 2. Copy the line containing root in /etc/shadow into a new line and change name 'root' into 'root1' 3.Now you can login as root1 and get all root privileges. You can change password for this user. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
