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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Root admin info Post 302159947 by deedaz on Saturday 19th of January 2008 11:13:45 AM
Old 01-19-2008
Root admin info

(Very New to UNIX- Solaris world)

I have my Solaris 10 system built, and can login using root.

This root user is a super type of admin user as I understand it.

1.My question is do UNIX admins usually use this account for all admin tasks or do they use another account similar to this account with the same privileges , if so how do you do this in basic terms.

Rgds

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time-admin(1)						      General Commands Manual						     time-admin(1)

NAME
time-admin - Time Administration Tool SYNOPSIS
time-admin [OPTION...] DESCRIPTION
time-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration. time-admin allows you to set the time, date and timezone of your system, as well as setting any time server to synchronize your local time server. OPTIONS
time-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options. AUTHORS
time-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others. This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
services-admin(1), shares-admin(1), network-admin(1), users-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7) The online documentation available through the program's Help menu. GNOME
2007-05-08 time-admin(1)
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