Creating 2nd admin

David Fletcher dave at thefletchers.net
Mon Sep 13 09:06:08 UTC 2010


On Monday 13 Sep 2010, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> To create 2nd user with root privilege, is this enough?
> 
> usermod -G admin 2ndroot
> 
> I notice the 1st user has more groups.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I needed to do this a couple of days ago. I just used a text editor 
on /etc/group and added the user name to the admin line. Seems to work OK for 
me. I'm not sure what the adm line is but I added it there too.

Dave




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