create a new user, then edit /etc/passwd and set his uid to 0. However, if you try to change this user's password, it will change root's password instead. The only way to change this user's password is by directly editing /etc/shadow.
you can do "passwd new-root-user" and it will change the password of the new-root-user, even if the uid is 0; it will not change the password of root. At least in my system (Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.4.12) it works that way.
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