[geeks] root equivalent user

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Oct 23 14:55:16 CDT 2002


On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:31:05PM +0000, Chris David wrote:
> Hi
> How to create a root equivalent user? I dont want to set the uid as 0 
> becasue that was  like giving root account access. Is there any way to do 
> this? The eq. user should have access to usr directory (say install 
> softwares)

Look into "sudo".

Bill

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