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[ILUG] root account

[ILUG] root account

Simon Dickson Simon at dicksonent.com
Thu Oct 11 20:21:31 IST 2001


Hello everyone,

	This is probley not the smartest of questions, but I was wondering what was 
the best way to go about making another "root" account. 
It only needs to be able to control the filesystem, not the entire system, so 
I was thinking would making a user admin and putting it in the correct 
groups, and making things like /etc /bin and /usr group writable. 

chmod -R g+w /etc /bin /usr

..

Does this create any real security issues?.

Simon

All help and imformation appreciated.




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