On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:47:03AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > Again: su is not sudo. sudo provides similar functionality, but in a > slightly different way. If you want to use sudo, you'll have to > edit /etc/sudoers.
OK, my mistake. Learn something every day. > Did you install shadow with pam support? If yes, check > /etc/pam.d/su. It has some commented lines which, when uncommented, > remove some restrictions. No pam support at all... [m1800][root][~]emerge --pretend --deep --newuse --verbose shadow These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r3 -debug -nls -pam (-selinux) -skey 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB USE has "-pam" in /etc/make.conf. The pretend-emerge above indicates that no pam support was compiled in. As a matter of fact... [m1800][root][~]ll /etc/pam.d ls: /etc/pam.d: No such file or directory -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
