Re: root question

["Hossein S. Zadeh" <hossein bf rmit edu au>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, David Hansen Jr. wrote:

> Is there a way to make a second user, similar to root, that has full access 
> w/o having to type su each time?  I've got a 6.1 box that I have my p/w set 
> as su, but I need to give another full access, but I don't want him to know 
> my password, and I'm not too fond of changing it.

I am strongly against this, but:
If you really Really REALLY want to do this, just create a new user with
user id 0 (zero). But be warned that he doesn't have root privilages, he
IS root (merely with a different password).

Hossein