pure ftp and permissions help

right i had pure ftp running basic for ages with login as root

as my server has got more busy a few members have asked for personal webspace so i said yes

anyway i re-compiled with virtual accounts which seemed to go fine i changed it so it would start pure ftp like this:

/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -j -lpuredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb

everything works sweet i made the accounts for my members all happy

but

i tried to make a virtual user with root access as i cant change any files or delete or anything with virtual account i made for myself

i tried this

pure-pw useradd root -u root -D /home/

but i get this message:

You must give (non-root) uid and gid


basicly how can i make a virtual account for myself that can have file permssions the same as root to all my server

thanks very much for reading i am desperate

Regards
Mick D

sorry to bump this but i could really do with some help on the above post ?