Superuser priveleges for users

[Art Ross <aross skyenet net>]

A group at our community college was trying to setup a normal user
account to have superuser priveleges with Linuxconf.  When we gave a new
account the superuser priveleges, we still could not start 'linuxconf'
from this account.  We experiment with several different
configurations.  What are we overlooking in our attempt?
  Thanks in advance,
  Art