How to create the user same privileges as root in UNIX

Tech INFO

You can create a user with the same privileges as root

Steps:






1) create the user

smitty user ->add user
2)edit the etc/filesystem

modified your user row same as root user row.

this will allow the user with all the operations a root can do.

But It is not good paractice . please give the user with sudo access.


Note: If you want to change the password of the new user ID. first change the UID to some thing else than 0, and then change the password and again change the UID to 0.

If not you will be prompted to change the root password to change it when you login as root.







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