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12-30-2014

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Could you please explain what you want to achieve?

If this is homework: there is a special forum for that. Please repost there and get a moderator to close this thread.

Otherwise: "read-write" or "read-only" are not attributes of a user but only of a user-file (or user-directory) relationship. This means, UserA can have read-write privileges for FileA, but read-only privileges for FileB, while for UserB it the other way round: RO for FileA and RW for FileB.

What "Admin user" should mean is completely unclear. Such a type of user does not exist in Unix. There is only one special user, which is "root" - to be precise any user with userID 0, regardless of the username. Because userIDs are supposed to be unique this means effectively that you can rename "root" (very bad idea usually), but not more.

I hope this helps.

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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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