[vox-tech] User with root privileges

[Jonathan Stickel]

David Margolis wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> 
>>>   On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they
>>>   will have full privileges.
>>
>>that's not quite accurate.  UID != GID.
>>
>>pete
> 
> 
> 
> Yeah, but that's still not a bad idea.  If files owned by root are also
> owned by the group root, then adding joeuser to the group root would have
> largely the desired effect (without messing with sudo or the root user
> itself).

I have always included my personal user account in the group "root". 
However, few "root" files have write permission for the "root" group, so 
this really doesn't change much for me.  Anytime I want to do something 
to the system, I have become root anyway.

Jonathan


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