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Re: Advice Needed On Recent Rootings



On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:06:21PM +0200, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
> Just curious, how do you su to root, if root's password is disabled?
> Do you have a modified su replacement?

su uses PAM.  So it doesn't need to use root entry in /etc/passwd.  It
could do something insane like consult a RADIUS server or something.
Whatever you can dream up, really.

noah

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