How do you make users have root access? For some reason I can't login using Telnet (I know I should use SSH but this server I don't really care if it gets hacked into) as root. I gave a user permission to all the directories but how do I make that user have root access so I can install stuff from home instied of having to be at my server to install everything?

I am using Red Hat 7.2 under the KDE GUI. Thanks for you help!

You can telnet to the server and then use "su" to be root.

There is also a small utility called sudo

sudo allows limited and controlled superuser access. check the man pages for more detail.

SUDO + SSH


Thanks!