On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:08:53PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > Before I get into this, allow me to add a disclaimer: I don't know why > this person wants to do this, I have advised them against it, I have told > them it's a security risk and just general bad practice, but they want to > do it anyway. Do they really want to do this, or do they just want to give the account owner the rights to do certain things normally restricted to root? And if they think they want to do this, try to find out the reasoning... > This person wants to give their user account root privileges. I've never > encountered a need to do that, so I have no idea how it would be done. > usermod -G root doesn't seem to do the trick. Anyone have any > suggestions? A worse-than-usual approach would be to change the user ID in /etc/passwd to zero (0). But I'd really, REALLY work on getting them to use sudo. Make that really, Really, REALLY work on that. -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
