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#1 2008-07-09 13:39:48
- matiit
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Su without a password for user in wheel group
auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid
That line in /etc/pam.d/su is responsible for su without passwd for users in wheel group....
And when I type su (from privilages user) i am without passwd under the root! (bravo), but when i try to write something it automatically exit to normal user.
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#2 2008-07-09 16:43:01
- bbs
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Re: Su without a password for user in wheel group
i recommend just using sudo for these types of things 
-- i cannot help you directly other than saying working with sudoers is much more of a sane process designed to eliminate the headache of this situation
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#3 2008-07-10 05:40:08
- matiit
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Re: Su without a password for user in wheel group
But it is more comfort for me, and that worked on other distros.
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#4 2008-07-13 21:29:32
- matiit
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Re: Su without a password for user in wheel group
Anybody?
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#5 2008-07-15 22:03:28
- saciel
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Re: Su without a password for user in wheel group
From my times with ubuntu, where everything was done using 'sudo' and you couldn't log in as root I remember being able to get a root-shell using 'sudo su'. If you now allow you 'wheel'-users to execute su vi sudo without a password by adding
%wheel ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /bin/su
to your /etc/sudoers and add
alias su='sudo su'
to your user ~/.bashrc it should work, though I'm not 100% sure and don't know if you are comfortable with this kind of workaround.
I don't know too much about pam to help you there. By the way, what 'other distros' are you talking about? As mentioned, ubuntu is sort of a special case regarding user privileges.
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