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Sendhil is quite right - that is the way to create a user with root privileges.
But -- why would you want to do that?
If you would like to allow certain users to do some jobs that are restricted to the root user there are better ways than allowing someone access to everything.
Have you considered the SUDO package? Mike
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Sendhil is quite right - that is the way to create a user with root privileges.
But -- why would you want to do that?
If you would like to allow certain users to do some jobs that are restricted to the root user there are better ways than allowing someone access to everything.
Have you considered the SUDO package? Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.
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