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Re: Why does Root need passwords?



On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Andreas Eichner wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> after ca. 1 month uptime I had a bad system crash due to a hardware
> failure. I encountered strange behaviors and after some reboots I set
> "forcefsck". Several errors where found which my ext3 did not realize by
> journalling (and now I know why Ext3 is still experimental).
>
> And since this day I need passwords when changing from root to another
> user by doing "su <username>" - not funny, since some init-scripts want
> to change to lower privileged users (like distributed-net).
>
> How can I recover this situation?
>

Have a loot at /etc/pam.d/su. Is there an entry like

auth     sufficient  pam_rootok.so

Good luck,

Qian



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