Re: [cobalt-users] Separate root account in RaQ3

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Riordon wrote:

> How do I create a separate root account on the RaQ3. I have searched
> and searched the archives but was unable to find it. I have also read
> my books to no avail.

Because you can only have one root account on your RaQ (or any Linux
box) and you already do.

You can give other accounts equivalent access to root, but the gui may
overwrite that.

The way you do it is by editing files by hand, and changing the uid and
gid numbers to zero.

No, you don't have to restart anything.

> Also, I just entered in a new user and noticed that the user does not
> have a shadow passord in the passwd- file. All the rest are shadowed.
> Why would it do this?

Don't know.  Have you tried deleting and re-entering the user?  Have you
tried additional users to see if it's still happening?  Have you tried
changing the user's password from inside a shell?  If none of these
ideas result in anything fruitful, you might have to unshadow and
reshadow everything.  Of course to do that you'd want to take the Raq
offline.  And to do that you'd want to be at the same location on the
Raq, inside the local network.

Jeff
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