jason watts wrote:
hello
i spent today downloading installing and updateing (851 updates)
fedora core 5. as part of my senior project.
after i was done, i was told to add this account, and give him root
privlages. so, i added the user to the group 'root'. then i was
instructed to google and find out how to delete the root account since
i said i dont think its posible.
so, my questions are,
1) how do i delete root? can i do it threw the normal way you delete
any user account?
I was just able to do the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] useradd -u 0 -o falseroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] logout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] su - falseroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] userdel root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] logout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] su - falseroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] cd /root/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] touch foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] su - root
su: user root does not exist
So I created a new user which is equivelant to root, deleted root, was
able to write
a file in a dir which requires root permissions, but showed that root no
longer
exists.
Hope this helps.
TTYL,
Phil
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