Yes, I have done this with RHEL3 ..... but the second root user was only for accessing files.... with liberal use of chown to correct any owner errors after changing some files with the 2nd user.
As for anything "special" .. not really, I just don't recommend doing it. In fact I don't even remember WHY we did it... If you going to use it, you might as well use root anyway. The better way of course is to assign the user to the correct groups and solve the issue that way. Crouse Site Admin. OpenSuse.us ------------------------------ On 3/20/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 15:50 -0500, Dave Crouse wrote: > In general I would STRONGLY suggest that you do NOT do this.... > however... if your bent on doing it -- do it at your own risk. > > Before making any changes BACKUP any files you might be editing. > > Local user accounts are stored in: /etc/passwd > copy the root line.....paste it back in right under the original root > line....changing the "root" to "whatever" in that second line will > give you a second user with UID 0 Have you ever actually done this and had a working system? I have seen several reports of the various ways in which the system dies subsequent to this kind of effort, so I would be interested if you have a 'known good' recipe. And to the OP - you have been warned, repeatedly! Don't do this. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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