Giving a user all root permissions

ranixlb · 05-12-2002, 09:28 AM

How can i give a user all the root permissions? BTW: i know what am doing.

DavidPhillips · 05-12-2002, 04:20 PM

use username root or sudo

Sfin · 05-12-2002, 04:41 PM

Best way might be to add him to the group root I think.

tyler_durden · 05-12-2002, 04:53 PM

just add him to the passwd file with uid =0 (i think)

safrout · 05-12-2002, 05:01 PM

u can log in as a root user and stop looking for a way to let a user work as a root

trickykid · 05-12-2002, 06:19 PM

You can make the user with a UID of Zero, but that is unsafe and can totally mess up your system and I wouldn't do that. Why not setup sudo or su as root, or just use root.

jeremy · 05-12-2002, 07:35 PM

sudo is the best way to go in a situation like this. You will not need to give out the root password and everything will be logged.

--jeremy

neo77777 · 05-15-2002, 10:23 AM

Plus with sudo you can designate different groups to have different privileges, for example you can have a group ADMINS and assign to this group full superuser privileges, and you can have a group OPERATORS with limited privileges, for example you can restrict the group to use certain apps that require root privileges, so at the end it only comes to designating users to aforementioned groups,
man sudo
should give you a good view on all of this.

sewer_monkey · 05-15-2002, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sfin
Best way might be to add him to the group root I think.

Nope, that'll just give him filesystem priviliges, i.e. access to files owned by the root group for which group permissions are set accordingly.

sewer_monkey · 05-15-2002, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tyler_durden
just add him to the passwd file with uid =0 (i think)

Yeah, I used that once to crack into a box at work for which the root pass was forgotten by the previous "sysadmin".

A crude method, I advise against it in a production environment.