root's clone

**karunesh** · 06-02-2004

I want to make a user identical to "root", or I can say in this cloning age I too want to create a clone of superuser that is "root".

Any clue...

**sarumont** · 06-02-2004

What type of clone? Do you want this cloned user to have all the access that root has? If so, what is the point? Are there any differences in "root2" and root? Please specify a little more.

**anand** · 06-02-2004

In the /etc/passwd, change the uid of karunesh to '0'
And the user karunesh will have the same power as that of root.

**xylex_blaiste** · 06-03-2004

i don' think you can do that dude! you could have your regular user have the same superuser rights as root, but not like changing it to '0'. that's reserved only for root.. .

**Giro** · 06-03-2004

Yeh you can only have one super user thats the way the OS is!!

**linuxzouk** · 06-03-2004

if you are looking for normal users to have same power as root in terms of commands

try,
# man sudo
# man sudoers
# visudo

normal users can issue root commands by typing
# sudo command

**Darrant** · 06-05-2004

I set my UID to 0 just to try and see if it would take and it did with no problems. I was able to do it in SuSE and Redhat, but then again this was like 3 - 4 years ago when I was able to do this.

**linuxzouk** · 06-05-2004

you can set the uid to 0 but that's not a good practice

**xylex_blaiste** · 06-06-2004

so what happened Darrant, you had like 2 roots? will the system allow that? aren't IDs supposed to be unique? that's like a sure breach of security protocol there! or a bug. ain't it?

**anand** · 06-10-2004

I dont see any problem in setting my UID to 0.
What else do i need if i want root's power?

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