Rajesh Fowkar forced the electrons to say:
> Thanks everybody for help. Problem solved after changing uid=0
> and gid=0 in /etc/passwd file.
Rajesh, I'm telling you again - don't do this!
> 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.
Once again - you are opening a major hole in your system. Please consider
using sudo - I had posted the link yesterday. This is just the kind of
job for which sudo is ideal.
Here is the link once again. Also, RH 7.0 and SuSE for quite some time
ships with sudo.
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo
Binand
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