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Paul Mouritsen (mourip@cpcug.org) wrote:
: Obviously I need to read some more about system administration but for now I 
: am wondering if there is a simple way of giving root-like privileges to 
: "mourip" so that I can log in as mourip and have all the blanket access that I 
: have as root.

: Any help would be appreciated.

: Paul Mouritsen

I wouldn't recommend this for most people, but you can go into the /etc/passwd
file and find the entry that begins with mourip...

something like 
mourip:x:205:103:User Name:/home/mourip:/bin/ksh

In this case you would want to replace 205 with 0.  0 is the User ID
of root.  Effectively you would BE root, but the username would say mourip.
This is kinda risky, because you will forget that you are root.  I recommend
this ONLY for a short-term solution.  Be careful.

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