[CLUE-Tech] su privileges

[Marcin]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Is there any way to give root privileges to another account?

Of course :)

If you know a root's password, just type 'su - ' commend.
For example:
[some_user:localhost]$ whoami
some_user
[some_user:localhost]$ su -
password:
[root:localhost]$ whoami
root

Or, you can edit /etc/passwd and change user's UID to 0 (zero). This method 
is very useful when you have a few administrators on your Linux, because this 
way you can see which administrator loged  and when :)
For security, and future analyse of logs it's good idea, first log in as user 
and next become a root typing 'su -' commend. Look at /etc/securetty.

You can read much more about it in manual (man su, man group, man securetty; 
also apropos su, apropos group)

Hope it's useful and my English was understanable...

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Marcin Betlej
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