how to crate new super user from terminal in fedora core 3

Markku Kolkka markkuk at tuubi.net
Thu Jun 29 09:50:30 UTC 2006


yogesh at banasdairy.coop kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika 
torstai, 29. kesäkuuta 2006 09:50):
> how to create new super user from terminal in fedora core 3

There's exactly one superuser account in any Linux/Unix system, 
the one with UID=0 and username "root". You can't create a "new" 
one.

If you must give more than one user the superuser privileges, use 
the "sudo" mechanism. See "man sudoers" and "man sudo".

> also how i protect root user password so that no one will
> break it

Choose a long enough random character string, don't write it 
down, don't login directly to root account (use su) and don't 
tell it to anyone.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi




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