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Operating Systems Solaris New root account with Different UID number Post 302685655 by jlliagre on Monday 13th of August 2012 07:47:17 AM
Old 08-13-2012
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Originally Posted by johnavery50
I would like create duplicate root equivalent account with all the privileges equal to root.
The trend is the opposite, i.e. removing root as an account as its presence causes security and auditing issues.
On Solaris, you can set root as a role (that's the default starting with Solaris 11) and then grant this role to the users who require it.
Alternatively (or in parallel), you can also use sudo.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

dsenableroot

dsenableroot(8) 					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					   dsenableroot(8)

NAME

     dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account.

SYNOPSIS

     dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword]

DESCRIPTION

     dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account.  Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root
     account passwords are removed and the root user is disabled.

     A list of flags and their descriptions:

     -u username
	      Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer.

     -p password
	      Password to use in conjunction with the specified username.  If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry.

     -r rootPassword
	      Password to be used for the root account.  If this is not specified for enabling, you will be prompted for entry.

EXAMPLES

     -dsenableroot
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for both your password and the new root password to be set to enable the root
	      account.

     -dsenableroot -d
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for only your password to disable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -u username -p userpassword -r rootpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to enable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -d -u username -p userpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to disable the root account.

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