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In article <49fk7m$9p1@news.smart.net> tmckearn@smarty.smart.net (Tom McKearney) writes:

   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.

   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. 

I think that it is a dangerous road to take. I fancy myself a fairly
seasoned Unix hand, but I avoid being root whenever I can. For
instance, I install all new software in /usr/local as myself (I change
ownership of /usr/local to myself).

If I _really_ need to be root (to change /etc/hosts, or something like
that), I become root by typing 'su': it requires providing the root
password, and drops you in a shell with root privileges.  I quit this
shell as soon as I am done.

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