\_ 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. adduser or some other means of getting the system to initialize all the fun parts (/etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/mindblank, etc) then 'vipw' and change the new user id to 0. >From my days at LLNL, they would give the primary sysadmin 'root', and give all sysadmins 'user_r', and 'user'. At this point though, I bet sudo is a better option for a goodly number of problems. David