[GLLUG] root access

[Daniel R. Kilbourne]

Why don't you check out a little utility called mysu. All people need is their own password to become root.

http://www.voyager.net/mysu


Matt Fuerst extolled:
> Greetings all,
> 
> I have been a big fan of creating specific root level accounts for each user
> that really needs them. For example, with my login name of fuerstma, I
> usually create a Rfuerstma user that has root level access.
> 
> I usually accomplished this by using the /usr/sbin/useradd command adding
> the user with the group ID of 0, and making the home directory the same as
> my fuerstma directory. This always worked great. I could "su Rfuerstma" and
> login with root priviledges, and still work in my main directory and all
> that fun stuff.
> 
> I just loaded a machine with RedHat 7.2, and this isn't working. I add my
> user and then "su Rfuerstma", and I obviously do NOT have root privileges. I
> looked at /etc/passwd and the Rfuerstma user is indeed a member of group 0.
> 
> Did RedHat do something between 7.1 and 7.2 that changed all that fun stuff?
> Is there a better way to do this? It's nice since I can give all the admin
> type people an Rusername account and just delete that when they no longer
> need it as opposed to changing the actual root password....
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Matt Fuerst
> 
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