James Asked: > 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.
Jeff Wrote:
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.
James Answered:Thanks, got it! I still need to do a little research into exactly what all the params are in the passwd and group conf files are.
James Asked:
> 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.
Jeff Wrote:
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.
James answered:After a few hours the password mysteriously shadowed itself. I presume that there is a time span through which Linux must pass in order to execute the necessary script or app to accomplish the task at hand to result in all passwords being shadowed. Then again, i could be wrong.