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Hi all,

I wish to create some users, I can do that using the following command.

Code:

useradd

I wonder If i could create Uers as a clone of Root. I mean different users but having the same provileages as Root user. Can be ablle to access the Root Dir and so on ..

Please help me out Is this possible. ?? If yes How can I do that.

you can do it by editing /etc/passwd file, change the uid filed to 0.

cat /etc/passwd|grep root
paste the o/p in /etc/passwd and change user root to desired username.

but think again if it is very neccessay to do........

Regards,

Awadhesh

@ Awadesh Thx for the reply.

Well I am not trying to change the Root user.

Rather i am trying to Create some more new users Like ROOT.

So my query is .. "How Can I create new users exacly same( WRT provileages) as ROOT".

Assume I wana Create a user "ADMIN1" .. So i need this user to be a clone of the ROOT . ADMIN1 must be having same powers as the ROOT.

THX for the help in advance.

What Awadhesh is saying, is that you have to create a new user and make sure that new user has uid 0, same as root. But honestly, I would never do that on my system. See SUDO instead if you need to give root privileges.

http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/

@qfwfq THX for Correcting me .

THX to Awadesh for help.

we did this on solaris for the following reason: only use the "root"-account for emergencies, nevery change anything to that account (f.e. shell, also make sure its on the root partition) and have a second "root"-account for administrators with altered shell etc. so there is always a backup-root-account which is working for sure even if ur shell is broken, homedir on a corrupted harddrive which gives lockups or something. But I also recommend rather using sudo as far as possible.

Hi ,, Again , I gota stuck up in the same issue addrssed above.

I have created new user ..e.g test
And now Iam ready to edit the passwd file to change the access of the user as ROOT o/p 0.

I would like to have a suggestion what would be the best and possible way to edit the passwd file.

Thx in advance.