On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 Philip S Tellis wrote : > On 15 Feb 2002, Mahesh Gharat wrote: > > > open /etc/passwd and make uid 0 for that non-root > user. > > not a good idea. when that new user tries to change > his password, it > will change root's password, but not his.
That's what called as superuser equivalence.;-) -Mahesh > This is so > because passwd > checks the uid, and looks in /etc/passwd for first > account with that > uid. > > Basic answer is don't give any other user root > privilidges. If a user > needs some kind of installation privilidges, put him in > the wheel group. > Also configure pam to use the wheel module. > > Alternately, sudo can be used. > > > -- > If you are smart enough to know that you're not smart > enough to be an > Engineer, then you're in Business. > > _______________________________________________ > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
