Re: Changing SU's password ?
fast answer:
passwd root
longer answer:
su
passwd
even longer answer:
"su" is the name of the program that stands for "Swap User" . You can use it to swap
your current user to whatever other user that is defined on your system (check "man
su").
The SuperUser on a Unix system is named "root" . Yeah, the most initial part of the
filesystem is, too.
Note you can create as many superusers on your system as you do want, by adding users
with UID=0 in your passwd database. But that's probably something you would want to
do for 2 reasons only:
1. Changing the default shell of your "interactive" superuser sessions without
interfering with programs which want a special "standard" shell as the root's shell
2. Having a rescue superuser account at hand in case of problems with the first one.
HTH
Oliver Schoenknecht wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> although this questions seems to be quite dumb : How may I
> change the password of the Super User (su) under Linux ?
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