How to give root privileges

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: inode0 [mailto:inode0 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:02 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: How to give root privileges
> 
> On 3/30/07, Leslie Jordan <ljordan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How do I give a user 'root privileges'?
> 
> For full root privileges I usually put the user in the wheel 
> group and adjust /etc/pam.d/su to taste. Lots of people 
> prefer giving access through the sudo command so take a look 
> at that way too. It allows you to restrict what the user can 
> do as root as well.
> 
> John

More importantly, sudo logs what the user did with the sudo command.