Easiest way to create user with root permissions

[Scunningham99]

Hi

Whats the easiest way to create a user which has root privilages but is called say simon.

would it to be create user and assign to sam group id as root "1" ??

Thanks in advance!

simon

Sy UK

 

[bfitzmai]

SunOS used to have a group called "wheel". Members of the group had root privileges. In Solaris, root is the only member that is allowed into group 1.

There is a free application called "sudo" that you may want to check out.

http://www.sunfreeware.com/

There is also group 14 (sysadmin) that gives users specific privileges like creating user accounts.

 

[sunixadm]

Hi,

look at the man pages for rbac.

I would suggest rbac over sudo.\\-Joe

 

[KenCunningham]

Simon - don't do it. Search this forum for sudo and find out the reasons why and the alternatives - most of which revolve around sudo.

 

[Scunningham99]

ok great... from memory I have looked at sudo before and hit problems with compilers etc... dont really have alot of time to be spending on it.. but i guess ill have to make time..

thanks for all your help!

rgds

Sy UK

 

[coffeysm]

You can either use sudo, RBAC, or create another create with a UID of 0. But the last method I would never do myself. I would look into RBAC if you are having problems with compiling SUDO.

 

[SamBones]

Look into sudo and RBAC, that's the correct way, but...

If you do want a quick and dirty, just create the user with a UID of '0'.

simon:x:0:1:Simon root:/export/home/simon:/bin/ksh

Just make sure it appears AFTER [tt]root[/tt] in [tt]/etc/passwd[/tt] or all files owned by [tt]root[/tt] will be owned by [tt]simon[/tt] in [tt]ls -l[/tt] listings (it doesn't change the ownership, it just changes the name displayed in the listing).

The name [tt]root[/tt] is nothing special, it's that UID of zero that gives that login it's power.

Hope this helps.

 

[mdet]

you don't need to compile sudo. The sunfreeware sites provides you with a package SMCsudo which is easily installed with "pkgadd".