Hello

In my system I have installed Fedora12. And there is a user called "user1". Now I want to provide this user the full permission as root.
How can I do that?
I tried but it didn't work.

And another thing is that is there any possibility to boot with root user instead of normal user?
At the time of login, we should login from normal user. We can't login from root user.
After we login to normal user then only we can login to root user through the terminal inside gnome desktop.

So I want to login from root user first.
Is this possible?

Help me.

Hi,

Although you can configure your system to allow root to login it's not adviced. Better practice is to add your primary user to the su list so that you can use:
This is a lot safer so that you will not break your system. To add a user to the sudoers list, you can use visudo if installed.

Kind regards,

Eric

or set uid and gid of user1 to 0 in /etc/passwd.
but again be aware it's not what you really want, don't use root privileges everywhere.

Would you not then have to change roots UID to something other than zero so it is unique? Would that not cause other potential issues?

Well, there are some advantages to setting yourself up as an all-powerful root user: if you come from using Windows at home, you'll feel right at home. Maybe a virus will drop by and catch you with your pants down and then you'll really feel right at home!

Operating system security is bad. Bad, bad, bad. Bad dog. No biscuit. Every piece of software anywhere on the planet should have the unfettered right to screw-up your system. Yes, yes, this is The Way.

Don't do that, it's a horrible idea.

The best solution that I can think of for you is to add the user to the sudoers file and allow user1 to issue all commands without entering a password. You'll have to type sudo for before every command. I'd also advise against doing that, but at least it's a solution for you.