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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?
One of the few really nice things to come out of RedHat is PAM.

If you examine /etc/pam.d/su there should be a commented line using
pam_wheel.so.  There are two there, one only allows su from a group, the
other allows that group to su with no password.  I use the latter
extensively.

Jayson



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