[geeks] root equivalent user

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 14:55:16 (-0500), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] root equivalent user
>
> 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".

That won't help in this particular situation.  Giving sudo access is
almost always equivalent to giving root access.

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