Thanks for the info guys. But will it be safe for me to delete root after
this? or maybe it would just be safer for me to switch the user id number
hmmm?

Carl P. 


On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Brian Cluff wrote:

> Just whip out the text editor of your choice and set the user id number to 0
> of the user that you would like to be a root level account.
> Thats all!
> 
> Brian Cluff
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> > 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.
> >
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