Giving A User Root Privileges Linux

I Am Playing With Linux, I Am The Administrator For A Linux Server I Am Using As A Virtualbox. Can You Show Me How To Change An Ordinary User Who Is Not Root As Root. In Other Words How Can I Create A User With Root Access? [3295], Last Updated: Mon Jun 24, 2024

Weberly

Sat Feb 13, 2010

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i am playing with linux, i am the administrator for a linux server i am using as a virtualbox. can you show me how to change an ordinary user who is not root as root. in other words how can i create a user with root access?

webune

Sat Feb 13, 2010

one way to do it is login as root, then edit the /etc/passwd file

under the user's profile, be suer to change the UID and Primary GID to 0

0 is always root

so should looks something like this:

YourUser:x:0:0:mycomments:/home/YourUser:/bin/NoShell

NOTE: YourUser is whatever your username is

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