How can i give same priviledege to another user like root. i tried with root group but doesnt worked.

Depending on how you do this, you could be opening your system up to attacks. For instance, malware could take advantage of elevated user accounts if they are logged in, or an incorrectly written script or command could wipe out the entire system.

I'm trying to think why you would want to do this on a systemwide level and can't think of a good one. Mind explaining what you are trying to accomplish?

You need to be more specific about what you are asking -- but what you probably need is to learn how to use the "sudo" utility: http://www.chinalinuxpub.com/doc/www...ux-hn/sudo.htm

Remove the user from the root group. You can use "su" and "sudo" to run commands as root. Your distro probably has a number of GUI system configuration wizards. If you run them from the menu, you will be prompted for the root password. After that, you will be running that program as root.

Use:
su -
<password>
visudo

and delete the "# " at the front of the commented line for the "%wheel" group. You may also need to add yourself to the wheel group. Some distro's like Ubuntu add the first user to the %wheel group and have this group already configured to use sudo.

Please put your distro in your user profile. If you use Ubuntu, you already can use sudo, but we don't know this.

Actually you can extend user privileges by adding them to the root group, but even in this case those users will only be able to read/write/execute files that belong to group root and have their group permissions set to rwx. Files that belong to root, but have all group permissions disabled, can not be accessed by the root group.
Depending on what you want to achieve, this can even be handy. You only have to enable/disable group permissions on root owned file to fine-tune access to them

linux

No. Please stop thinking about using the root group. Bad Idea. All of your programs and processes will inherit your group membership. You don't want to be running a browser with the root group ownership permissions. Besides, having to change the permissions of a file to allow root group permissions, you would still need to use su or sudo.

thanks to all for help and suggestion. two of us maintaining the system and we agreed to use 2 account to keep accountability and dont want to use su every time. we can do this in windows system so we thought this can be done in linux also. i tried sudo but there is one problem sudo can not execute all the command like deluser, etc. i am using cent os 5.2. can anyone suggest any other option to do it.


thanks

Which is one of, if not the reason(s) why Linux is more secure than Windows. I'm not familiar with the finer details of system security, but to the best of my knowledge you are going to have to use su or sudo and do a bit of researching into how to log the level of info you want to maintain the accountability you need.

Just because Some Other OS allows you to dodge security Best Practices doesn't mean GNU/Linux should.


Yes it can. Please learn how to configure Sudo properly.


No. You clearly need to be protected from infecting GNU/Linux with whatever misconceptions you carry.

Just wondering...

If you trust each other enough, why not log in both as root

Or, as stated, use sudo properly configured.

IMNSHO "trust" has nothing to do with it nor should it. If you want accountability then just configure auditing and ensure logging can't be tampered with: use kernel logging with like GRSecurity or Auditd, 'rootsh' to do userland logging of shell history, transmitting log lines to a remote syslog server and possibly parsing those there in real time could provide you with a good audit trail.


...is the only right answer.

Yes, Users by standard use bin directories instead of sbin directories because of the different configuration of $PATH so try "sudo /usr/sbin/userdel <username>" and I bet it works . Reconfigure sudo as said above, reconfigure sudo...

thanks. can anyone provide me a good help file on sudo configuration?

As already said: man sudo

Sudo main page:
http://sudo.ws/sudo/sudo.html