On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:49:03AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
>
>> I am curious to know how such account can be created using command line tool
>> (adduser ) without using userconf :-)
> 
>give the user gid 0

Thanks everybody for help. Problem solved after changing uid=0 
and gid=0 in /etc/passwd file.

What I wanted to do here was to create a user for taking backups and put the script 
for taking backup in that user's profile and after the backup is over exit.
This user needed to have root permissions.


-- 
Rajesh Fowkar
(Computer Programmer)
V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD.
PANAJI-GOA

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