At 09:34 AM 12/21/99 Neil J. Kemp wrote:
I think he meant literally give the second user the username and password for username "admin" (there can only be one box admin much like root in Linux)
There can only be one "root" (and yes, there can only be one "admin"), but although it's not well documented, you can give as many people as you want different logins on a linux/unix box, and they can still be root.
You just create the users normally (under linux/unix, not under the cobalt shell), then go in and edit them so they have the same uid & gid as "root". It works. And the advantage is you can see who was logged into the box at the time. (I don't remember where I read this trick.)
You can most likely do the same with "admin", but you still can't get in through the web-based gui, unless you can figure out where to put the username/password pair. I'm pretty sure that's all that's required, since everyone operating through a browser has the browser's uid & gid; it's either all done with suid scripts or else with smoke & mirrors <smile>.
Jeff