Re: Knoppix question

[Paul Nicholas McCubbins <nick77@dtnspeed.net>]

Haven't done much with Knoppix, but here goes: 

Modern PAM implementations support a "trust" option to the pam_wheel
module.  In the pam config file for su (normally /etc/pam.d/su)  check
for a line like this:

auth       sufficient   /lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid trust

This line will allow a user in the "wheel" group to su without using a
password.  Commenting it out (add a '#' before the line above) will
force password logins.  

This is straight from the documentation for the pam modules, located
in /usr/doc on my Gentoo box.

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 09:11 -0600, Mike Cash wrote:
> After entering a terminal window, and typing su, it went immediately to 
> a root shell rather than prompting for a password.  Is there any way to 
> remedy that?
> 
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