make another root account
 

hi

can i make another user say "root2"

and have him have the same exact privs as root?

when i run adduser and when it asks what group should he belong to, i try to type "root" but it says "no such group name"

this is on bsd

thanks

All accounts with UID 0 have superuser priviliges. There is no group root on most BSD systems, instead the group with GID 0 is the wheel group.

Anyhow, why do you want to do this? It's generally considered a bad idea, security-wise.

man sudo

This would be a little better idea to follow, security-wise.
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sy.../sudo-1.6.7p5/

Hope this works for you!

_Kx

my friend and i have a server hosted and he wants to have his own little root account for some reason, i just dont want to get him upset lol

well when i do adduser and it asks for uid, i enter in 0 but when i do it says "uid is already in use" so i just hit enter for the default

and then i asks for user class, i dont know what this means, so i just hit enter for the default

then it asks for group, i enter in wheel
then i fill out the other stuff, but when i log in with the account i still do not have root priveleges

any suggestions?
thanks

Useradd does some sanity checks and probably is refusing to create an account with userid 0. You can add ithe account to the passwd and master.passwd (the BSD equivalent of /etc/shadow) directly, but why not follow Kronux's suggestion and use sudo. Another option, I share a couple servers with a friend, and we just both have the root password.