Creating Super User

Yeah, it would be totally safe. The only thing that makes root root is that
used ID of 0. Since you will still have a user with ID 0 you will still
have a root account, just not with the name root.
Just double check that you did indeed give root privlemges to the new user
or you could hose up your system pretty good.

Brian Cluff
----- Original Message -----

> 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
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > > 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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> > >
> > >
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