Linux requires one to become an instant systems administrator

Nat wrote:

>There are some things you can do to simplify gettign in and out of root:

>1.a. Add youself to the "wheel" group in /etc/group
>    wheel:x:100:root,<your_user_name>
>1.b. Edit /etc/pam.d/su and follow the advice in the comments:
>    # Uncomment the following line to implicity trust users in the 
>'wheel' group.

BTW, I run SuSE Linux 7.1 and when I installed it it asked for a user id and 
password for normal use and then a password for root use. 

So now I have 2 accounts on my system, "ian" and "root" and I only have to do 
root stuff for fdisk or to change the system clock time (my system is so old 
the BIOS CMOS backup battery is failing).


Ian