Creating Super User

Carl Parrish carl@carlparrish.com
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:40:01 -0700 (MST)


How does one go about creating a new super user? Simply making them a
member of the root group doesn't seem to work (this is on RH7.0). Can I
get rid of the root account after doing this? Will I have to change
permissions of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow after doing this? Please tell
me there is a flag or something to adduser. 

Carl Parrish
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