Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:11:56AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: FreeBSD is not Windows. True statement - thank heaven. You cannot have another root in the system. Unless I misunderstand

How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread williamkow
Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD 6.2-Release. I created a user account named william and do not assign any group as I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start KDE, i use command kdm but I can only logon using the newly created

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD 6.2-Release. I created a user account named william and do not assign any group as I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start KDE, i use

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Mel
On Thursday 11 October 2007 13:17:59 williamkow wrote: Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD 6.2-Release. I created a user account named william and do not assign any group as I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start KDE, i use

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, FreeBSD is not Windows. You cannot have another root in the system. What you can do is the creation of the group wheel and put william into this group. Allow then all members of wheel to access the files needed by the group wheel. I would not do this as it creates many security

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, williamkow wrote: Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD 6.2-Release. I created a user account named william and do not assign any group as I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start KDE, i use command kdm but

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After seeing some of his other questions he should get a book on basic sysadmin also. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, FreeBSD is not Windows. You cannot have another root in the system. Yeah, you can. It's just a really bad idea. root and toor both have UID and GID of 0 - giving them both superuser privileges. There is nothing to prevent

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:17 +0800, williamkow wrote: Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD 6.2-Release. I created a user account named william and do not assign any group as I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start KDE, i use

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I can't with one. If you mean opening GUI apps try adding the

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, FreeBSD is not Windows. True statement - thank heaven. You cannot have another root in the system. Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this is NOT a true statement. You can create as many ids with a '0' UID as

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I can't

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:08 +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: FreeBSD is not Windows. True statement - thank heaven. You cannot have another root in the system. Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this is NOT a true statement. You can create as