Creating 2nd admin

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 13.09.2010, 10:06 +0100 schrieb David Fletcher:
> 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.
adm is for reading logs (ls- l /var/log)

you can easily just use adduser to add an existing user to a group btw

sudo adduser 2ndroot admin 

will do that for you ...

ciao
	oli
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