Re: How to set up another root account?

["G. T. Francisco" <g3francisco mediaone net>]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 12:01:57AM +0200, auto72822 hushmail com said:
> Setup a normal account with adduser like you normally do then edit /etc/passwd 
> to change the UID/GID to "0" (as it is for root)
> 
> At Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:55:29 -0500, "G. T. Francisco" <g3francisco mediaone net> 
> wrote:
> >For I back up purposes, how can I set up another root account, e.g.
> >root2?
> >

Thanks for the info. Will having one UID with two names not be a
problem? If root gets locked out will root2 be able to log in even if
they have the same UID?

Thanks,