https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1045244 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/how-create-user-root-privileges-command-line#comment-1245681 <p>I'm not aware of a way of 'granting' a user the same privileges as root.<br /> I've done one (or more) of the following:</p> <p>1) Grant the user the ability to 'su' (Substitute user) into root. This, in effect, allows the user to 'become' root. In BSD, the user needs to belong to the group 'wheel' to enable this.</p> <p>2) Use 'sudo'. Sudo is an application that enables you to map 'allowed' commands a user is allowed to execute as 'root' (Or another user for that matter). So, I have someone that looks after apache on one of the servers. I map the user access to the /www/bin/apachectl on sudo, so they may start/stop/restart the web server...</p> <p>This is all BSD experience - I assume Linux has the same, or similar.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Sean.</p> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:45:48 +0000 Shaggy comment 1245681 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net