On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:06:21PM +0200, Olaf Dietsche wrote: > Just curious, how do you su to root, if root's password is disabled? > Do you have a modified su replacement? One of the few really nice things to come out of RedHat is PAM.
If you examine /etc/pam.d/su there should be a commented line using pam_wheel.so. There are two there, one only allows su from a group, the other allows that group to su with no password. I use the latter extensively. Jayson