Creating Super User

[Brian Cluff]

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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