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Re: passwd/su how to no password also two modules files?



On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:40:21 -0400, Steve <ekco9595@rogers.com> wrote:
>  
> Hey, 
> Im trying to do no password for my user account and root (please dont warn
> me about that ;0, It brings such freedom I love it.) I got it to work in
> /etc/passwd but just putting :: for passwd field and that works however when
> i do "su" it asks me for password and if i just press enter it doesnt think
> its correct anyonw know how i can get around that? (i havent hade time to
> mess with it yet so forgive me if its something obvious) 

If you ask for something like that, means you probably don't know
enough about your system, and IMHO you are looking for troubles, i
mean, if you look in the "su" man you'll find you can use "su -" or
"su root"...

> also, 
> im wondering how you manage different /etc/modules config files for loading
> different modules with different kernels? cause if you want to boot another
> kernel its gonna still use your other module config files so are you just
> supposed to replace the module configs files respective before you reboot
> or? thanks. 
>   

Usually your HW don't change on reboot (or don't change much =) so
probably i'm missing something...


Andrea  

P.S. perhaps i use the defaults for the modules loaded by the kernel, anyway...



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