Re: User with same permissions as root

From: Alexandre Sato (alexandre.sato_at_BR.ABNAMRO.COM)
Date: 08/25/03

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    Two solutions:

    1 - Set the required user to have UID 0. This is not recommended, but it's
    gonna work. Edit the /etc/passwd entry and change UID and GID to 0.

    2 - Using Sudo. Sudo ("superuser do"), allows a system administrator to
    give certain user (or groups) the ability to run some (or all) commands as
    root or another user while logging the commands and arguments. Sudo is
    free software and is distributed under a BDS-style license. You can
    download the AIX version at http://www.bullfreeware.com, available both
    for 4.3.x and 5.1 versions.

    I should use the second one, specially because security concerning.

    Best Regards

    bjj@BANKDATA.DK
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    08/25/03 10:55 AM
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    Hi List!

    How do I make a user that has the same permissions as root?
    Is that possible?
    If not, then what can I do to make a user with as many rights as possible,
    like root?

    What I need to do is to run IBM TAPM, and I hear people say that I need to
    run it as 'administrator' on windows. And that works fine.
    Now I just need to do the same on AIX.

    Yours sincerely
    Brian J. D.
    IT Security Consultant

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