Setting user permissions

[JBL312]

I have recently created a new user account on my Red Hat 8 server. The server is acting as a proxy server, running Squid. The server is not running a GUI so I created the user account from the prompt using Adduser. I then set the password for this user account.

I would like to know how I can set permissions for this user account. I will be telneting into the computer and logging on with this user account. I need to be able to perform admin functions on the server with this account so the permissions should be close to that of Root.

 

[Gloups]

It will be difficult to configure it same as root but you can use the sudo command to solve your problem.

 

[franklin97355]

After you log on type su and then when prompted the root password. This should give you root priveligles

 

[manarth]

telnet has a number of security issues. You should consider using SSH instead.

Putty is a free SSH client which works on windows.

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